Georgian and Turkish law enforcement authorities arrested 14 Turkish citizens in Georgia in a joint operation, including eleven wanted internationally under an Interpol Red Notice and three wanted at the national level in Turkey.
The arrests were announced at Georgia’s Interior Ministry on March 5 by Irakli Dondoladze, deputy director of the Central Criminal Police Department, and his Turkish colleague İskender Güray Keskin, deputy head of the Interpol-Europol Department within Turkey’s General Directorate of Security. Both praised the cooperation between the two countries’ law enforcement agencies.
Dondoladze said the arrests followed “lengthy operational and investigative measures” carried out with the involvement of several units of the Interior Ministry, the Georgian Prosecutor General’s Office, and Turkish law enforcement agencies.
He said most of the suspects had entered Georgia before they became internationally wanted, while some crossed into the country illegally.
According to him, the detainees are suspected of committing “grave” and “particularly grave” crimes, including drug-related offenses, robbery, intentional bodily harm, weapons-related crimes, property damage, evading imprisonment, membership in a criminal organization, murder, and fraud across 26 separate episodes.
He added that relevant procedures are underway to ensure their transfer to Turkey.
The officials also said at the briefing that Georgian and Turkish police conducted a similar joint operation in August 2025, when 14 individuals wanted internationally by Turkish authorities were detained.
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