As the left discusses increasing diversity and acceptance, violence is escalating across Germany. Today on the streets of Berlin, four Turkish-Kurdish gangs are fighting for dominance in the drug trade, and
According to Manuel Ostermann, federal chairman of the DPolG Federal Police Union, these gangs are extremely well-connected and structured, maintain global financial networks, and know no bounds in their fight for power.
“They don’t hesitate for a second to use firearms or explosives. They have no inhibitions,” he tells Bild. “This is certainly not the end of the escalation. Today, it’s no longer just brawls, but open gun violence and hand grenades.”
“Germany is no longer a safe country… The migration crisis is first and foremost a crime crisis.”
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Drive-by shootings, hand grenade attacks, protection rackets, and bounties on prosecutors and judges — this is the new normal in Berlin.
Authorities are also pointing to the spread of violence from neighboring European countries. Benjamin Jendro, spokesperson for the Police Union (GdP), told Bild: “Young people being recruited, as in Sweden, could happen here too. We’re not there yet—but it could happen.”
“If someone offers 1,000 euros for someone to throw a hand grenade into a storefront, sooner or later someone will come forward. We live in the age of ‘crime as a service,’” he tells the portal.
Gun violence is the real concern. Last year, a Turkish man with a Belgian passport was shot dead in Berlin’s tourist district at Checkpoint Charlie. A leading figure in the Turkish mafia is believed to be behind the attack.
Just last Friday, a 25-year-old Turkish man was shot in the leg in Berlin-Mitte, but this is simply one of dozens of similar incidents.
Amidst a sea of foreign crime gangs, the most brutal are the Daltons, the Ezgins, the Caspers, and the Sirinler (“Smurfs”). According to the police, the Daltons are a “highly criminal Turkish group.” Their leader, Berat Can Gökdemir, is reportedly hiding in Russia. The Ezgins are a splinter group of the Daltons, led by Turkish national Baris B.
The gangs are said to recruit young men with no prospects—such as those from refugee shelters—for their criminal activities.
In early March 2025, a recruited Daltons accomplice carried out attacks on branches of a supermarket chain in the Spandau and Wilmersdorf districts, firing several bullets through the windows with a pistol.
He was sentenced by the Berlin Regional Court to a juvenile sentence of 2 years and 9 months.
In late March 2025, a 21-year-old Daltons operative shot a Berlin businessman seven times in the legs from a distance of five meters. A targeted act of punishment and intimidation. The shooter was apprehended and confessed to the crime.
In November 2025, the State Criminal Police Office (LKA) responded to the escalation of violence by establishing the Special Task Force (BAO) “Ferrum” to identify meeting places of organized crime and conduct inspections at the slightest suspicion.
In just three months, “Ferrum” initiated 260 preliminary investigations. It seized 18 live firearms, 10 alarm guns, and 50 knives, baseball bats, and stun guns, reports Bild.
Nevertheless, criminals have not been deterred, and the attacks have continued: Gun attacks at a Berlin driving school due to protection racketeering, and Turkish mafia-backed attack where a live grenade was thrown into an empty club in Kreuzberg, to name just two incidents.
“The number of related cases at the District Attorney’s Office is on the rise,” the District Attorney’s Office wrote in February 2026. In 2025 alone, there were 515 gunshots in the capital. Now, a new investigative unit, “Telum,” has brought on “several experienced prosecutors from the organized crime division.”
Recently, the gang war has once again escalated rapidly: In February, there were nonstop attacks: a car repair shop, a snack bar, a hookah bar, in a house, on the street.
“Ferrum” and “Telum” have responded with raids, often seizing both weapons and drugs.
The fact that no bystanders have been hit by a bullet so far is just luck, say the union representatives. Union chief Manuel Ostermann tells Bild: “They don’t care whether civilians get hurt. When someone fires from a car, no one can guarantee that a third person won’t be endangered. They don’t care at all. You can only hope that you aren’t foolishly standing next to someone who is meant to be a victim.”
GdP spokesperson Benjamin Jendro agrees: “The gangs are willing to accept that bystanders will be harmed. Not all of them are sharpshooters. So it’s only a matter of time before a bystander is hit. Often, it’s only then that politicians tighten the measures and expand the options available to law enforcement agencies.”
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