Oh no! Is the clown about to fall on his face....
The sons of three Cabinet ministers, Economy Minister Zafer Çağlayan, Environment and Urbanization Minister Erdoğan Bayraktar and Interior Minister Muammer Güler, are still under interrogation by prosecutors in the Istanbul police headquarters. So is Süleyman Aslan, the general manager of the state-run Halkbank, and there are reports that police found $4.5 million in cash in shoe boxes in his house in Ankara. That money is allegedly a bribe to transfer money from the gold trade of Iranian-Azeri businessman Reza Zarrab to Iran, in cooperation with Economy Minister Çağlayan. In order to provide short-cut Turkish citizenship to Zarrab (which he received, adopting the name Rıza Sarraf) the prosecutors think the names of Interior Minister Güler and Turkey’s EU Minister Egenem Bağış were involved in the process.
Prosecutors could only write a letter to Parliament for the questioning or trial of ministers, owing to their parliamentary immunity, which goes far beyond the limits of freedom of speech.
Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç said in a press conference on Dec. 18 that it was up to Erdoğan to dismiss the ministers involved or ask for their resignation, or the ministers could even themselves consider resigning.
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