Türkiye and Italy have been coordinating in lots of areas together with migration, organized crime and terrorism, Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu stated on Monday.
“Apart from the fight against migrant smuggling and migration flow, there is a close cooperation and relationship between Italy and Türkiye in the fight against organized crime, cross-border crimes and drugs, and the fight against terrorism,” Soylu instructed a news convention along with his Italian counterpart Matteo Piantedosi within the capital Ankara.
Soylu stated the safety groups of Türkiye and Italy are in such contact with one another that they’ve the power and capability to intervene instantly in case of felony exercise.
During Piantedosi’s go to, a memorandum of understanding was signed on the non permanent project of consultants from the Turkish normal directorate of safety to Italy.
Stressing that the ministries endeavor to fortify and strengthen pleasant bilateral relations, Soylu stated: “We continue our fight against illegal immigration with a common mechanism with Italy. In 2022, we all put forth a very strong effort in this regard.”
Piantedosi, for his half, stated Türkiye and Italy are two nations dealing with onto the identical sea and have quite a bit in frequent in some ways.
Upon the arrest of Italy’s most-wanted mafia boss Messina Denaro, Piantedosi stated: “Today has been a very important day for us, but also in our own country … I received the news of the arrest of a fugitive, a leading name of a very important criminal organization, who had been hiding for many years.”
Denaro, 60, was detained in a non-public clinic within the Sicilian metropolis of Palermo early Monday.
Considered one of the highly effective bosses of Sicily’s Cosa Nostra mafia, he had been sentenced in absentia to a life time period for a number of murders, together with his function within the 1992 killings of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
