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mafia
HDP asks for parliamentary investigation into bribery, corruption allegations by mafia boss
The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has asked the Turkish parliament to investigate revelations made by mafia boss Sedat Peker, who on Saturday recounted...
Turkey seizes İstanbul villa of mob boss who revealed murky gov’t, mafia relations
Notorious Turkish mafia leader Sedat Peker’s villa in İstanbul’s Beykoz district has been transferred to the General Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks,...
[Opinion] Erdoğan’s battles with explicit tapes
Türkmen Terzi The Turkish nation has arguably never enjoyed a fully functional democracy. Following the establishment of Ataturk’s secular republic after the collapse of the...
Mafia boss refutes reports of his capture by Turkish intelligence
A notorious Turkish crime boss who has been making shocking revelations about the shady relationship between mafia groups and state actors in Turkey has...
Some AKP MPs complained to Erdoğan about interior minister: report
Some 15 lawmakers from Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) have expressed uneasiness to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan over scandalous allegations made by a...
Opposition daily faces investigation for reporting on state-mafia relations in Turkey
An investigation has been launched into two senior figures of the Cumhuriyet daily, which is critical of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government,...
75 percent of Turkey’s voters believe mafia boss’s allegations: survey
Seventy-five percent of eligible voters in Turkey believe the scandalous allegations made by a mob boss about the relationship of some government actors with...
AKP official evades question about $10,000 monthly payment by mafia boss
A senior official from Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has refused to answer a question about claims that he was receiving monthly...
Erdoğan breaks silence, stands behind interior minister amid shocking claims of mafia boss
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has broken his weeks-long silence about the allegations of a mafia boss who has been directly targeting a government...
Neo-nationalist leader claims Erdoğan real target of gangster’s bombshell claims
Doğu Perinçek, a neo-nationalist ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and leader of the Homeland Party (VP), has argued that the real target of...
Ex-PM’s son files complaint against mob boss over drug trafficking claims
The son of a former prime minister and top ruling party official has filed a criminal complaint against a mafia boss who claimed that...
Erdoğan silent as far-right ally supports minister over shocking claims of mob boss
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has remained silent as his election ally, Devlet Bahçeli, leader of the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), voiced support...