22.07.2025 09:51
In operations conducted against crimes such as "illegal betting, qualified fraud, online child pornography and harassment, money laundering of assets derived from crime, and qualified theft" centered in 17 provinces, 46 suspects were arrested, and judicial control measures were imposed on 20 of them, while proceedings for the others are ongoing. Additionally, assets worth approximately 107 million TL were seized during the operation.
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Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced that operations were carried out in Mardin, Adana, Karaman, Sivas, Osmaniye, Diyarbakır, Balıkesir, Ordu, Kilis, Manisa, Hatay, Ankara, Aydın, Bingöl, Kahramanmaraş, Çorum, Edirne, Hakkari, Kırklareli, and Malatya, centered in Konya, Erzurum, Tekirdağ, Niğde, Şanlıurfa, İzmir, Mersin, Tokat, Eskişehir, Gaziantep, Kocaeli, Artvin, and Sinop, as part of the fight against cybercrime.
It was determined that the suspects established and operated panels through illegal betting and online gambling sites, facilitated money transfers on illegal betting and gambling sites, hosted obscene child images, laundered money obtained from crimes by performing fortune-telling through websites, and defrauded our citizens using themes of "product sales, high profits, and work-from-home opportunities" through social media platforms and phishing sites. They also accessed citizens' mobile banking accounts to share personal data and obtained unjust profits without inquiry.
ASSETS WORTH 107 MILLION TL SEIZED
Investigations were initiated by the Prosecutor's Office against the suspects for violating the Cybersecurity Law No. 7545, qualified fraud by using information systems as a tool, illegal betting, online child obscenity, unauthorized access to information systems, qualified theft, establishing an organization for the purpose of committing a crime, being a member of an organization, and laundering assets derived from crime.
Two vehicles, two marine vessels, and two companies worth approximately 107 million TL were seized.
In a statement shared on his social media account, Yerlikaya said:
"I congratulate our governors, the Chief Public Prosecutor's Offices coordinating the operations, our EGM Cyber Crime Department, our Provincial Police Chiefs, our police officers, and our MASAK employees who carried out the operations. We are on the trail of those who engage in illegal betting and commit qualified fraud using information systems, just as we are in the Homeland, with our virtual patrols in the Cyber Homeland."
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