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Monday, December 23, 2013

Erdogan goes on offense against corruption charges - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Erdogan goes on offense against corruption charges

Since a secret two-year graft probe hit the surface on Dec.17 — bringing into the spotlight allegations that three sons of cabinet members in a close-knit network abused their fathers’ power and received bribes, tearing apart the government’s self-declared presumption of innocence in the fight against corruption since it came to power over a decade ago — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been on the offensive attempting to paint the scandal as a foreign plot against his government.

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