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Turkey corruption investigation focuses on Erdogan
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Imagine that. Corruption in Turkey at a very high level.

Quote:Turkey corruption investigators charge 16 with links to ErdoÄŸan

Two ministers' sons and bank chief accused of taking or arranging bribes as inquiry into graft targets PM's circle

[Image: Riot-police-stand-guard-i-009.jpg]Riot police stand guard in front of the courthouse in Istanbul where corruption charges were filed against several of the prime minister's allies. Photograph: Osman Orsal/Reuters

Sixteen people, including the sons of two ministers, have been charged in connection with a sweeping corruption investigation targeting allies of the prime minister, Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan.
Suleyman Aslan, the general manager of state-owned Halkbank, was also formally arrested and charged alongside Baris Guler, the son of the interior minister, and Kaan Caglayan, the son of the economy minister,Turkey's state-run news agency reported on Saturday. The son of a third minister and a construction magnate were freed from custody pending trial.
A total of 24 people are now in detention, awaiting trial on corruption allegations, according to the Anadolu Agency. The private Dogan news agency said the ministers' sons and other suspects are accused of taking or facilitating bribes.
The operation began last week, with the detention of scores of people seen as close to Erdogan's government. It has struck at the heart of Turkey's ruling elite.
A court on Saturday ordered the release of 33 others, including the mayor of Istanbul's Fatih district, Mustafa Demir, and the son of Turkey's environment minister.
Dozens of police chiefs have been removed from their posts, accused of abuse of office for keeping the investigation quiet from higher-level officials in security institutions.
ErdoÄŸan has called the investigation a "dirty operation" aimed at undermining his rule and has vowed to go after those who have instigated it.
The inquiry comes amid a power struggle between ErdoÄŸan's government and an influential US-based Muslim cleric, Fetullah Gulen, who has a strong following in Turkey and is believed to have leverage within the country's police force and judiciary.
In his first comments on the case, Gulen has cursed those responsible for a purge of police officers involved in the corruption probe. Gulen's words, invoking God's punishment, raise the stakes in a crisis seen as the biggest challenge to ErdoÄŸan's rule in years.
"Those who don't see the thief but go after those trying to catch the thief, who don't see the murder but try to defame others by accusing innocent people let God bring fire to their houses, ruin their homes, break their unities," Gulen said, in a recording uploaded to one of his websites on Friday.
The reclusive preacher has lived in the US since 1999.


The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14
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David Guyatt Wrote:Imagine that. Corruption in Turkey at a very high level.

The very idea is preposterous, infidel.

Suleiman the Magnificent Inc.
"There are three sorts of conspiracy: by the people who complain, by the people who write, by the people who take action. There is nothing to fear from the first group, the two others are more dangerous; but the police have to be part of all three,"

Joseph Fouche
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Paul Rigby Wrote:
David Guyatt Wrote:Imagine that. Corruption in Turkey at a very high level.

The very idea is preposterous, infidel.

Suleiman the Magnificent Inc.

I profusely apologize and prostrate myself seeking your forgiveness.

Those nice Turkish politicians are really just a delight...
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14
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David Guyatt Wrote:
Paul Rigby Wrote:
David Guyatt Wrote:Imagine that. Corruption in Turkey at a very high level.

The very idea is preposterous, infidel.

Suleiman the Magnificent Inc.

I profusely apologize and prostrate myself seeking your forgiveness.

Those nice Turkish politicians are really just a delight...

I once came face-to-face with one of these chaps in the course of an election year.

A truly horrifying experience, as the candidate's shifty eyes moved restlessly about, ogling the ladies in grotesquely obvious fashion, and establishment lies - in so far as any of it was comprehensible to this brute northern European - poured from his fat, sensuous lips.

There goes, I thought to myself, the archetypal sleazy Turkish machine politician.

No sooner had the thought occurred than Boris got back on his bike and wobbled off in the direction of the glass gonad.
"There are three sorts of conspiracy: by the people who complain, by the people who write, by the people who take action. There is nothing to fear from the first group, the two others are more dangerous; but the police have to be part of all three,"

Joseph Fouche
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David Guyatt Wrote:
Paul Rigby Wrote:
David Guyatt Wrote:[quote=Paul Rigby]

The very idea is preposterous, infidel.

Suleiman the Magnificent Inc.

I profusely apologize and prostrate myself seeking your forgiveness.

Those nice Turkish politicians are really just a delight...

I once came face-to-face with one of these chaps in the course of an election year.

A truly horrifying experience, as the candidate's shifty eyes moved restlessly about, ogling the ladies in grotesquely obvious fashion, and establishment lies - in so far as any of it was comprehensible to this brute northern European - poured from his fat, sensuous lips.

There goes, I thought to myself, the archetypal sleazy Turkish machine politician.

No sooner had the thought occurred than Boris got back on his bike and wobbled off in the direction of the glass gonad.

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The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14
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