Alaettin Çakıcı (born 20 January 1953) is one of the leading figures of the Turkish mafia, a convicted felon and a former member of the ultra-nationalist Grey Wolves in Turkey.
[3] Çakıcı contracted the assassination of Cavit Çağlar, a wealthy businessman from Bursa and a high-level politician and government minister, and Mehmet Üstünkaya, former president of Beşiktaş JK, in relation with the incidents known as the "Türkbank scandal", in connection with the privatization of Türk Ticaret Bankası to Korkmaz Yiğit.
It was determined that he toured in Belgium, United States, Italy, South Africa, France, Brazil, Singapore and Japan.
[3] Recording tapes published after his capture in 1998 in France led to the resignation of the government minister from the Motherland Party (ANAP) Eyüp Aşık, who was accused of warning Çakıcı to flee.
Meral Akşener, minister of interior from the True Path Party (DYP), MİT agent Yavuz Ataç and businessman Erol Evcil were also accused of the same allegation.
[9] Although not allowed to leave Turkey and his passport confiscated, he fled from Antalya[10] to Greece by sea as told by a group of people, including his nephew and Erol Evcil, who were apprehended by the police in Foça, İzmir.
[12] In order to visit Ali Çakıcı, son from his first marriage, in a hospital in Graz,[13] he drove to Austria changing his car three times on the way.
[15] After his return to Turkey, Çakıcı was put on trial, and found guilty of the following crimes: On 15 April 2020, he was released after the Turkish parliament approved a law to contain the spread of the COVID-19 in the prisons.
[3] On 20 January 1995,[21] she was shot dead with seven bullets fired by the hitman Abdurrahman Keskin in front of her son Onur in Uludağ, a ski resort in Bursa.