Sami Hoştan | |
Birth Place: | Skopje, North Macedonia |
Death Place: | Istanbul, Turkey |
Occupation: | Mafia Boss |
Sami Hoştan (1 July 1947 – 11 May 2015[1]), also known as Arnavut Sami Sami the Albanian, was a Turkish suspect in the Ergenekon trials.[2] He was a former partner of casino king Ömer Lütfü Topal; he was acquitted of Topal's murder in 2001.[3] He was a friend of Abdullah Çatlı's; he was one of the first to arrive to collect Çatlı's body from the scene of the 1996 Susurluk car crash.[4] He was arrested as part of the Ergenekon investigation in January 2008.[5]