Fatih Tezcan, a well-known troll for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, claimed in a web broadcast that two pro-government columnists, Hadi Özışık and Süleyman Özışık, force mayors into bribing them by circulating negative broadcasts about the mayors.
Tezcan claimed that the Özışık brothers, who run news sites including internethaber.com first start with negative stories about certain mayors on their website, then publish rumors of their dismissal by the government and finally demand that the mayors invite them as paid speakers at events to cover up the bribery and halt the negative coverage.
According to Tezcan, the Özışık brothers in this way receive hundreds of thousands of lira from the mayors.