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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke for the first time on the allegations made against his government by gang leader Sedat Peker.
Erdoğan denied allegations that his government officials were guilty of corruption and other crimes.
Peker, who is suspected of being in exile in Dubai, alleges that politicians and their relatives are linked to organized crime.
It is about alleged drug trafficking and unsolved murders.
Sedat's allegations are directed in particular against Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu, whom he derisively calls the "pretty Süleyman" or "Sülo" - and against Mehmet Ağar, who was first police chief and then interior minister in the 1990s and is close to the government.
"You will be defeated with a tripod and a camera," said Peker at last.
Peker made particularly explosive allegations in his seventh video on Sunday.
In it he accused the son of the former prime minister and Erdogan's confidante Binali Yildirim involvement in international drug smuggling - the ex-prime minister firmly rejected it.
Erdogan swore in his statement to ensure justice.
The Turkish government will prosecute organized crime leaders around the world, bring them home and turn them into law, he threatened.
Peker is a colorful figure and has a criminal record for forming a criminal organization.
In the past he appeared as a particularly martial supporter of Erdoğan.
In 2016 he threatened academics critical of the government that he would bathe in their blood.
In his videos, Peker has not attacked Erdoğan himself, he even calls him »Tayyip abi« - his »brother«.
According to observers, the publications point to domestic power struggles, but they are also increasingly becoming a problem for the president.
fek / als / Reuters / dpa