Minister of Internal Affairs Mustafa Çiftçi Announced That the Number of Armed Attacks Using Motorcycles Has Decreased

Minister of Internal Affairs Mustafa Çiftçi announced that the number of armed attacks using motorcycles has decreased. Çiftçi said, "Last year, between January 1 and July 16, there were 165 incidents in which firearms were used on a motorcycle. In the same period of this year, the number of incidents decreased to 46. Minister of Internal Affairs Mustafa Çiftçi evaluated the work carried out to prevent such attacks using motorcycles.

Stating that operations and preventive security works aimed at eliminating the action capability of armed criminal organizations are carried out uninterruptedly under the coordination of the Ministry, Çiftçi said that the structures using this method are followed by the security units with all their connections. Emphasizing that the fight is not limited to the people who committed the attack, Çiftçi said: "We are targeting all links of the crime chain, from the person who carried out the attack using the motorcycle to the one who gave the instructions for the action, to the one who provided the weapon and vehicle, to providing escape and shelter. We are narrowing the movement area of these structures by carrying out our operational studies, intelligence activities and preventive measures together.

Minister Çiftçi pointed out that some armed criminal organizations use motorcycles to reach the scene quickly, hide their identities and move away from the area after the attack, and said that changing the method used will not be enough to escape the surveillance of security units. Minister Çiftçi also shared the data on the incidents in which firearms were used and were transferred by motorcycle, and said: "During the period of January 1-July 16 of last year, people were transferred by motorcycle. Thus, a decrease was achieved in the incidents in question. Çiftçi stated that when the same periods are compared, the number of people who lost their lives in the incidents decreased from 17 to 9, and the number of injured decreased from 81 to 15. Stating that the results obtained show the result of the determined struggle carried out by the security units in the field, Çiftçi concluded his words as follows: "Each incident is a serious security issue that we must focus on with the same sensitivity.