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March 3, 1961 - Kürşat Yılmaz

Yakup Kürşat Yılmaz (born 3 March 1961) is a Turkish mob boss with links to the ultranationalist (Grey Wolves) Turkish mafia. He was arrested in Bulgaria in July 1998, having escaped from prison in Turkey three times (1994, February 1997 and February 1998).

After he escaped to Bulgaria, he was detained in Varna in 1998 and subsequently extradited back to Turkey in April 1999.

He was released on October 30, 2021, after his lawyers requested a retrial in 2021.


Content sourced from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kürşat Yılmaz under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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