The Security General Directorate's anti-smuggling and organized crime unit has prepared a report on the kind of crimes Glock weapons smuggled to Turkey have been used in. As part of these efforts, a special team was also sent to Iraq, where they found that only 2 percent of the 550,000 Glock pistols given to Iraq by the US were registered, and the rest had been smuggled to neighboring countries. According to the report, 522 Glock handguns have been used in various crimes, including 25 separate murders, in Turkey since 2005.
According to the report, the 2006 armed attack on the Council of State that left a senior judge dead and seriously injured four others and the killing of Catholic priest Andrea Santoro in Trabzon in February 2006 were among the murders in which those smuggled guns were used. Aside from murders, Glock handguns were used in 24 incidents resulting in serious bodily harm and five incidents of attempted murder, according to the report.
