PM Erdogan his son's TÜRGEV is where bribes go, Turkish opposition CHP leader maintains.

PM Erdogan his son's TÜRGEV is where bribes go, Turkish opposition CHP leader maintains.(TZ).

Leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has maintained that the Foundation of Youth and Education in Turkey (TÜRGEV), of which Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's son Bilal Erdoğan is an executive board member, serves as a center where bribes are transferred by businessmen whose companies are granted public tenders, the Sözcü daily said on Friday.

“[TÜRGEV] is a center where bribes are collected against public tenders,” CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu told the daily, maintaining that money acquired would be used to set up a parallel, alternative structure in the education system.

According to Kılıçdaroğlu, who says that Erdoğan has tampered with every state institution to cover up possible leaks about new corruption cases, the amount of corruption in the government is so big that it would not be possible to cover it up.

“Soon we will make new announcements [about the corruption]. The prime minister should continue watching us,” the CHP leader said.

As part of a far-reaching graft probe that became public in December involving four former cabinet ministers and others, Bilal Erdoğan was sent a summons by one of the prosecutors leading the graft probe to give a statement regarding corruption allegations in which he is allegedly involved. But the prime minister's son is under the protection of his father and did not respect the prosecutor's call.

In the party's group parliamentary meeting in the past week, Kılıçdaroğlu demanded to know if $99,999,990 was deposited into an account that TÜRGEV had at a public bank on April 26, 2013.
Noting that he has not yet received a response from Erdoğan regarding his claim about TÜRGEV, Kılıçdaroğlu said: “Prime Minister Erdoğan closely follows the money being transferred to the foundation; he personally provides financing [for the foundation]. He is presenting this [transfer of money to the foundation] as charity. No charity is conducted with ill-gotten money. We know very well why this money is being collected. They want to establish a new structure [in education].

Bilal Erdoğan meets with officials from the Ministry of Education from time to time. One feels the need to ask: ‘What does Bilal Erdoğan have to do with civil servants? Why do they come together? They want to set up a parallel structure in the area of education.”Hmmmm......17,000 New mosques....Number of new schools : ZERO. Read the full story here.