{"id":22053,"date":"2026-09-21T22:02:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T22:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/turkish-national-wanted-by-interpol-arrested-in-thessaloniki\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T22:02:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T22:02:42","slug":"turkish-national-wanted-by-interpol-arrested-in-thessaloniki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/turkish-national-wanted-by-interpol-arrested-in-thessaloniki\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish National Wanted by Interpol Arrested in Thessaloniki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-first=\"S\">\n<h3>Greek police arrested a 37-year-old Turkish national in Thessaloniki on Monday morning who was wanted internationally under an Interpol Red Notice.<\/h3>\n<p>Officers from the Northern Greece Sub-Directorate for Combating Organised Crime arrested the man after Turkish authorities issued the international alert.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from the Hellenic Police, Turkish authorities are seeking his extradition so he can serve the remaining four years and 11 months of a prison sentence.<\/p>\n<p>A Turkish court imposed the sentence for offences involving the trafficking or supply of narcotic or psychotropic substances, as well as the illegal purchase, transportation or possession of firearms and ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the Department for the Prosecution of Crimes Against Life and Property located and arrested the wanted man as part of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Police took the 37-year-old to the competent prosecutor\u2019s office, where authorities will handle the next stage of the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<footer class=\"article-tags entry-footer\">\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"category_container author-information\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<section id=\"authorpage\" class=\"authorpage\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/74a7af42a3ee68b1eb9b880b91e3e713144e269e50db87b04a35501c8e1351f8?s=164&amp;r=g\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/74a7af42a3ee68b1eb9b880b91e3e713144e269e50db87b04a35501c8e1351f8?s=328&amp;r=g 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-164 photo lazyload\" height=\"164\" width=\"164\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"author-content\">\n<h5>Kosta Papadopoulos<\/h5>\n<p>Kosta Papadopoulos is an editor at Greek City Times, covering Greek and international news, travel, sport, and entertainment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/2026\/09\/22\/turkish-national-wanted-by-interpol-arrested-in-thessaloniki\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greek police arrested a 37-year-old Turkish national in Thessaloniki on Monday morning who was wanted internationally under an Interpol Red Notice. Officers from the Northern Greece Sub-Directorate for Combating Organised Crime arrested the man after Turkish authorities issued the international alert. According to a statement from the Hellenic Police, Turkish authorities are seeking his extradition &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Turkish National Wanted by Interpol Arrested in Thessaloniki\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/turkish-national-wanted-by-interpol-arrested-in-thessaloniki\/#more-22053\" aria-label=\"Read more about Turkish National Wanted by Interpol Arrested in Thessaloniki\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-22-at-7.57.19-am.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}