Let us refresh our graft memories

It is now crystal clear the committee formed at Parliament has been constructed to cover up the bribery and the corruption claims.

It took months for the commission to be formed because of obstructions coming from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). The chair of the commission from the same party sent back the files regarding the Cabinet ministers to the Office of the Speaker of Parliament and he in turn sent them back to the prosecutors.

It seems that there was no index on the files; it would have been very difficult to find which document was in which file, etc…

While the files make their way from the office of the prosecutor to the Parliament, how much weight will they lose, which documents will be selected from them to go to the waste basket; we do not know for the moment, but we will learn sooner or later anyway.

I would like to remind you, on this opportunity, the “What time is it Mr. Zafer?” incident that demonstrated how former Economy Minister Zafer Çağlayan could not even tolerate an actually very funny form of protest.

Çağlayan’s code name has been cited exactly 28 times in the list of briberies that correspond to a total of $52 million.

He has also received a watch from Reza Zarrab, which is worth 300,000 Swiss Francs. They got on the businessman’s private plane and did their holy umrah visit to Mecca, never paying a penny for their trip.

Mr. Zafer’s phone collection

The transcripts of intercepted phone conversations recorded during the Dec. 17, 2013 graft operation also revealed Çağlayan was not only interested in watches, but he was also into phones.

Phone conversations such as these were frequently recorded...