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A parliamentary inquiry commission will vote Dec. 22 on whether to send the four former ministers involved in Turkey's Dec. 17 and 25 corruption probe to the Supreme Council. 

A landmark graft probe into senior government figures was officially dropped a day before its first anniversary when the Istanbul Chief Prosecutor's Office rejected an objection to its decision to not pursue proceedings in the case.

Former Interior Minister Muammer Güler has admitted that he gave a reference about Iranian origin businessman Reza Zarrab, the key suspect of the December 2013 corruption probe, but has denied allegations that he accepted bribes from him.

An Istanbul deputy of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) applied to the Constitutional Court on Dec. 1 over the removal of a ban on media reports about the work of the parliamentary commission on corruption.

The judge who ruled for a publishing ban on the parliamentary inquiry into corruption allegations concerning four former Cabinet ministers has said he only ruled out the direct printing of testimonies from the commission, not "criticizing and commentating" on the commission's work.