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Turkey’s former EU Minister Bağış admits receiving gifts from key graft probe suspect - POLITICS

Turkey’s former EU Minister Bağış admits receiving gifts from key graft probe suspect

ANKARA

Former EU Minister Egemen Bağış has admitted receiving gifts including “chocolate, shirts and ties” from Iranian-Azeri businessman Reza Zarrab and said he helped some of Zarrab’s friends receive visas, speaking at a parliamentary commission on corruption allegations on Nov. 27. He also described “gift giving” as a “Turkish tradition.”

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