"I'll make him an offer he can't refuse" - Graft prosecutor says threatened by officials dispatched by Erdoğan.

"I'll make him an offer he can't refuse" - Graft prosecutor says threatened by officials dispatched by Erdoğan.(TZ).

İstanbul Prosecutor Zekeriya Öz, who was leading one branch of a major ongoing corruption investigation, has said he was threatened by two high-level jurists dispatched by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, adding that the officials called on the prosecutor to apologize to the prime minister through a letter.

In a written statement that appeared in the Turkish media on Wednesday, prosecutor Öz said the officials warned him to not proceed further with the corruption probe and end it, threatening that he would otherwise face dire consequences.

Öz said he met with the officials at a hotel in the western province of Bursa."The people from the judiciary sent by the prime minister told me the prime minister is very angry about me. They asked me to halt the investigation and to write a letter of apology to the prime minister," Öz said about the content of the meeting at the hotel.

In the meantime, Prime Minister Erdoğan, who is currently in Japan for an official trip, denied claims that he sent two officials to meet with Öz, asking for halting the investigation.Read the full story here.