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2021-05-23 The Grand Turk
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Turkish mafia scandal threatens Erdogan government
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[DW] Ottoman Turkish mafia boss Sedat Peker is leveling serious accusations against leading government politicians. He has published five videos on YouTube in which he claims that high-profile politicians from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
's ruling AKP party are involved in serious crimes.
The clips, which have gone viral and are making headlines, claim leading politicians were involved in malfeasance, murders, rapes, drug trafficking and other illicit practices. Peker alleges the Ottoman Turkish government has spent the past years shielding him from persecution, even issuing police escorts to guarantee his safety.
The Mafioso claims Ottoman Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu tipped him off that authorities were on his case, allowing him to flee Turkey and escape prosecution — an allegation that has put the minister under considerable pressure.
As the government has so far refused to investigate Peker's claims, Ottoman Turkish opposition politicians are demanding Soylu's resignation. But without a full investigation into the accusations, nobody knows at this stage whether there is any truth to the allegations.
Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu is accused of helping a criminal escape prosecution
Peker, who fled abroad in January 2020, has been well-known in Turkey for years. Known as a leading figure in Turkey's criminal underworld, he has been tried several times — including on charges of murder and kidnapping — and was sentenced for "establishing a criminal organization."
WISHING THE AFFAIR AWAY?
Peker's videos have sparked a lively debate in Turkey. After weeks of ignoring the accusations, President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
 ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
was finally compelled to comment.
"It causes us great sorrow to see that some wretched and unworthy people in our country accept help from the mafia," Erdogan said this week during a Cabinet meeting. "Like terror organizations, criminal gangs are venomous snakes."
Ibrahim Uslu, a political scientist with the Ankara Social Research Center (ANAR), says Erdogan's statement came too late. "The ruling AKP party must instantly launch a parliamentary inquiry when a man who had fled the country makes slanderous and insulting statements against the government."
Uslu says the entire affair is a public relations fiasco for the government because public trust in the judiciary and state is already low. "The AKP should have made clear it is taking decisive action against criminal organizations."
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