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Turkey: Report confirms massive cases of corruption in AKP government

2022-09-09T14:43:03.713Z


Turkey: Report confirms massive cases of corruption in AKP government Created: 09/09/2022, 16:32 By: Erkan Pehlivan President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu. © - A report by the opposition party CHP reveals the cooperation between members of the AKP government and the mafia. For many, the report does not go far enough. Ankara - The opposition CHP party has released


Turkey: Report confirms massive cases of corruption in AKP government

Created: 09/09/2022, 16:32

By: Erkan Pehlivan

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu.

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A report by the opposition party CHP reveals the cooperation between members of the AKP government and the mafia.

For many, the report does not go far enough.

Ankara - The opposition CHP party has released a report on the ties of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AKP party.

The report, titled "Mafia-Politics-Trade Relations" (Turkish: "Mafya-Siyaset-Ticaret İlişkileri"), was handed over to party leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu by MP Ali Mahir Basarir on Wednesday (September 7).

"The report shows that Turkey needs a cleanup operation," Ali Mahir Basarir said on Twitter.

According to the deputy, all state control mechanisms should be put into action.

Turkey: triangle between mafia, economy and politics

According to Cumhuriyet

journalist Baris Terkoglu, the

report shows the triangle between mafia, business and politics.

The whole thing is run by members of the government and entrepreneurs close to them.

As an example, Terkoglu cites a raid in Panama that seized 616 packages of cocaine addressed to the port of Mersin.

The son of the then Transport Minister and later Prime Minister Binali Yildirim traveled to Venezuela to scout out new routes for drug trafficking to Turkey.

The report is said to also target former Interior Minister Mehmet Agar and his son Zülfü Tolga.

At about the age of 33, he received the license in Mugla and 12 districts for 20 years to operate vehicle stations for main inspections from TÜV Türk.

According to the report, the family paid $ 30 million for this.

"If we go after the money, we will come across the AKP,"

Cumhuriyet

quotes the report as saying.

The case of AKP MP Zehra Taskesenlioglu will also be discussed.

At the end of August, exiled former mafia boss Sedat Peker published a video of Taskenlioglu with her husband Ünsal Ban.

In it she tells her husband that he and her brother Ali Fuat threw her into the fire to make money.

Her brother is the former head of the stock exchange and asset supervisory authority "SPK", who is said to have been repeatedly bribed by entrepreneurs.

Turkey: Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu the main suspect

According to Terkoglu, the focus of the report is primarily Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu, a nationalist and companion of Erdogan.

In the past, ex-mafioso Peker had repeatedly reported on Süleyman Soylu's machinations on social media.

According to Peker, Soylu was involved in drug deals and bribery scandals, among other things.

The interior minister is also making common cause with mafia giants like Mehmet Agar.

Agar was convicted of multiple counts of murder and was released by amnesty in 2020.

Turkey: Report shows only part of what happened

The Kurdish-Alevi journalist and writer Aziz Tunc is not surprised at the involvement of members of the government in organized crime.

"It has always been like this in Turkey's history," says Tunc in an interview with

FR.de

from

IPPEN.MEDIA

.

Tunc criticizes that Terkoglu's article and the excerpts from the report are not complete.

"The reality is even worse," says Tunc.

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The Turkey expert and political scientist Prof. Savas Genc sees the anatomy of the so-called "deep state" in Turkey, a coalition of politicians, bureaucrats, security forces and organized crime.

"This construct meets with part of the population," said Genc when asked by

FR

.

"The Deep State says, 'We do this business ourselves and thereby prevent these funds from going to terrorist organizations.'

That's how the Deep State describes itself.

That is why the outrage among the population is restrained when such reports are published.”

Investigative journalist Cevheri Güven also confirms that members of Erdogan's government are collaborating with organized crime.

"Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu in particular is deeply connected to the mafia," Güven

told

FR.de.

However, the excerpts from the report are nothing new for Güven either.

"On the one hand, the CHP showed the flag that it wants to take action against organized crime and, on the other hand, documents the illegal activities at government level," says Güven.

After all, there will be elections in June 2023.

(Erkan Pehlivan)

Source: merkur

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