Bayraktar

Alaattin Bayraktar, General Vice President of the Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Confederation of Business Women, has vowed substantial investments in Balkan states in 2015.

One of the prosecutors of the huge Dec. 17, 2013 corruption case, which embroiled many high-profile suspects including former cabinet ministers, has said the former ministers played two key roles in helping Iran break the U.S. embargo: Organizing fake documents, and making sure that Reza Zarrab remained the sole actor in the process.

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has pledged to rule the country better than the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) if the CHP comes to power, denouncing a “negative propaganda campaign” against his party.

The latest testimonies from former ministers at a parliamentary commission on corruption have revealed that the implicated ministers have different positions toward wiretap recordings that were presented during a graft probe case that was launched in December 2013.

Former Environment and Urbanization Minister Erdoğan Bayraktar has defended himself against the graft probe allegations that led to his resignation from the ministry post, while also saying the new allegations against him in the inquiry commission were baseless.

For the first time in Turkey, a court has put a media ban on a parliamentary inquiry into corruption allegations against four former Cabinet members of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Parti), scheduled to start on Nov. 26.

Turkey’s media organizations have been unprecedentedly banned from reporting about a parliamentary inquiry into corruption allegations concerning four former ministers of Cabinet.

A request for the ban was filed by the Parliament Speaker’s Office to the Ankara Chief Prosecutor’s Office on Nov. 21, asking for a ban that will last until Dec. 27.

Former Environment Minister Erdoğan Bayraktar, who resigned from his position after the Dec. 17 graft probe, allegedly manipulated newspaper ads to “nurture” the pro-government media, according to a summary of proceedings sent to the Justice Ministry, daily Cumhuriyet reported May 28.