Gangs of London - The Turks

By viceland

That thing about "say a lie enough times and it becomes the truth" that Goebbels or Kaiser Soze or whoever said generally winds up being used by obnoxious middle-ground liberal types to condescend to the overly-religious or folks who don't believe in global warming, but in the case of London's burgeoning population of "Pakistani street gangs" it's sort of true. You see, there really isn't one. There are plenty of Tamil and Bangladeshi gangs with colourful names like the Tooting boys who get lumped into the general rubric of "pakis" by your average racist, which eventually filters its way up into the mainstream media to mixed levels of caring. For our second foray into Britain's gangtopia, we decided to sidestep this little lingual hotspot and focus on the guys running the heroin trade in which these smaller "Pakistani" gangs dabble: The Turks.