December 19, 2013

The dangers of demonization

Kerim Balcı

Government supporters have accused the Hizmet movement of aiming to discredit a number of ministers and their relatives.

Rotten?

Yavuz Baydar

It stinks. This is the bluntest description of what the graft probe has revealed so far. This is a three-pronged operation involving more than 50 suspects, but Turkey has never seen an investigation into four ministers -- who form part of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's inner circle -- and their sons.

Turkish Islamic scholar Gülen rejects any link to graft probe

Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen has rejected any link to an ongoing corruption probe in which 52 people, including well-known businessmen, the sons of three ministers, and a number of advisors, have been detained as part of a major investigation into alleged bribery linked to public tenders.

Pak-Turk delegation visit Balochistan Chief Minister

Chief Minister of the province Balochistan, Pakistan, Abdul Malik Baloch received a delegation of Pak-Turk Schools’ and several other affiliated institutions’ officials at his residential office. The delegation included the schools’ General Manager, Unal Tosur; Deputy General Manager, Fesih Celik; Kimse Yok Mu Foundation’s representative to Pakistan, Ozcan Inan; the businessmen association Radiant’s Secretary General, Huseyin Yilmaz, and the dialog center Rumi Forum’s President, Suat Erguvan.

AKP: What is next?

İhsan Yılmaz

We, of course, have not yet seen any hard, concrete evidence related to the most recent corruption investigation. The suspects are most probably innocent, and until they are convicted we have to accept that they are innocent.