As early as 1996 the Camorra had a stronghold in Turkey starting in Instanbul and spreading from there.
Said to be composed almost entirely of Italians and Greeks from Naples,Sicily,and Cephalonia.
In the 90s investigations also revealed relations between the crime families from Platì (Reggio Calabria) and the most powerful Turkish/Kurdish clans like Baybasin, Kocakaya and Dilek.
The Italian crime syndicates, and the French and Corsicans, have had close working relationships with Turkish poppy growers and processors, war lords and strongmen for over a century.
Hence the French and Corsican underworld who ran the labs in Marseilles, and later, the Southern Italians and Sicilians that processed, packaged and smuggled overseas to North America.
