How to Fight Alleged Corruption in Turkey: Eliminate the Allegers
by Burak Bekdil
The Gatestone Institute
January 15, 2015
Originally published under the title, "Turkey's Staggering 'Shoeboxgate': How Turkey 'Fights' Corruption."
Imagine one chilly day the American people wakes up to news that, in early morning raids, squads of public prosecutors and police detain the sons of cabinet secretaries, a mayor, a state bank manager and prominent businessmen -- all with publicly known close ties to the Obama administration. The mounds of evidence include telephone conversations, video material, and more -- all unmasking the trafficking of huge amounts of illegal money and expensive gifts among the suspects, who include a shady Iranian businessman.
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