Mehmet Şirin Baybaşin (born 1965) is a Kurdish drug trafficker.
He was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment at Liverpool Crown Court in 2011 for conspiring with a gang in Merseyside, United Kingdom to import large quantities of cocaine from South America.
[1][2] Mehmet Şirin Baybaşin was born in Lice, Turkey in 1965.
[3][4] His family was of Kurdish origin and was involved in farming and animal husbandry.
[5][6] In 1994, Turkish authorities issued a search warrant for him and he was arrested in Austria the same year.