ABSTRACT
Transnational organized crime is characterized by multiservice agencies based on fluid networks and functional cooperation. There exist many forms of threat and possible terrorist or organized criminal scenarios from a European perspective. Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz would later admit that the state 'had been taken over by organized crime'. In Bosnia, organized crime and corruption are more serious threats to security and stability than military confrontation, according to a senior OSCE diplomat. The criminalization of Russia might be halted by an authoritarian, state-interventionist, anti-Western regime of high military profile that would reverse, partly or totally, the process of capitalism. Western officials stationed in Kosovo and several European police forces are convinced of the link between the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and narcotics trafficking. Although initiatives have been taken to sever mafia-political connections, particularly at the insistence of senior Turkish army officers, it cannot be assumed that these will disappear.
