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Turkey: 'Dismissed ministers received millions in bribes'

According to a summary of proceedings sent to the Ministry of Justice regarding four former Cabinet ministers involved in an ongoing graft investigation, the Cumhuriyet daily claimed on Thursday that three of them accepted millions of dollars in bribes.

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-336816-dismissed-ministers-received-millions-in-bribes.html



The United States needs to tell Turkey to change course

Turkey s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is destroying his country s parlous democracy. That is a profound problem for Turks and Turkey s Western allies.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-united-states-needs-to-tell-turkey-to-change-course/2014/01/23/3525bf52-7eda-11e3-93c1-0e888170b723_story.html



Turkish main opposition questions Erdogan about Urla villas

Turkey s main opposition Republican Peoples' Party (CHP) has raised a parliamentary question on claims that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accepted two villas from a businessman in return for easing zoning restrictions in Izmir s Urla district.

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-337781-turkish-main-opposition-questions-erdogan-about-urla-villas.html



Turkey removes around 800 more police officers

The government sacked or reassigned around 800 police officers on Jan. 30, as it pressed on with a purge of the country s police force in response to the ongoing high-level graft probe.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-removes-around-800-more-police-officers.aspx?pageID=238&nID=61784&NewsCatID=341


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