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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: Cocky, reckless...this Istanbul cop is Turkey's answer to Gene Hunt
Istanbul multi-millionaire Mesut (Baris Kislak), on The Turkish Detective, wasn't the sort to book a budget twin room at a three-star resort. His luxury villa was practically a private hotel for one.
He takes the same approach to questioning suspects — barging past security goons to gatecrash a drug baron's party, or winning a computer hacker's trust by handing over his own online bank account details. Into his orbit stumbles a refugee from Scotland Yard, Mehmet Suleyman (Ethan Kai) — rulebound, smart, eager to impress but shocked by his new boss's unorthodox tactics. Suleyman and fellow detective Ayse (Yasemin Kay Allen) were lured to the docks, where snipers trained laser sights on their foreheads while the drug lord delivered a lecture about the importance of paying for your dinner.
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