Egemen Bağış

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Chauffeur on municipal payroll assigned to former minister for years, claims city councilman

April 15, 2019

An İstanbul city councilman has revealed that a permanent employee of the municipality has been working as a personal chauffeur to a former ruling party minister for...

Diplomacy

US names Turkish ministers, banks, as beneficiaries of sanctions-busting scheme

April 14, 2018

The US attorney for the Southern District of New York has named a number of former Turkish Cabinet ministers and banking executives as beneficiaries...

National

Kılıçdaroğlu says US indictment of former minister tip of iceberg

September 9, 2017

After an arrest warrant was ordered in the US for a disgraced former Turkish minister, the head of the main opposition party in Turkey...

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Former EU affairs minister says Turkey should approve executive presidency to avoid civil war

March 19, 2017

Disgraced former Minister of European Union Affairs Egemen Bağış said in a radio show on Saturday that citizens in Turkey should vote in favor...

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Former minister Bağış: Journalist in leaked conversation could have Gülen links

January 28, 2017

Turkey’s former minister of European Affairs, Egemen Bağış, claimed that the other party of a phone conversation in which Bağış mocked the Quran, journalist Metehan...

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Ex-minister Bağış argues leaked recording mocking Quran doctored in London

January 16, 2017

Turkey’s former minister of European Affairs, Egemen Bağış, has claimed that a voice recording of him mocking the Quran was doctored in London. Speaking to...

Opinion and Analysis

[OPINION] Turkey’s Erdoğan eyes gold, oil prospects in Somalia

November 20, 2016

By Abdullah Bozkurt Thanks to the eye-opening exposé on the leaked personal emails of Turkish Energy Minister Berat Albayrak, we now know that Turkey’s corrupt...

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