Turkish main opposition voices new graft claims against Erdogan.

Turkish main opposition voices new graft claims against Erdogan. (HD).

The main opposition party has voiced new graft claims against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his family with a question on a nearly $100 million transaction to the bank account of a foundation which counts the premier’s son, Bilal Erdoğan, as one of its board members. 

“TÜRGEV [Service for Youth and Education Foundation of Turkey] has an account at Vakıfbank: TR 20020001500158048013239675. Now I got questions for the prime minister: First, does TÜRGEV have such an account? And secondly, were 99,999,990 dollars transferred into this account on April 26? Is this money graft? Let’s satisfy our curiosity if you make a statement on these,” Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, leader of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), said at a parliamentary group meeting yesterday.

The CHP head said Erdoğan had converted the foundation into a “center of graft” and pulled his own son into the graft network via TÜRGEV.

“It’s being run by Bilal Erdoğan. We are not beating the air. You are giving your son an advantage by using your position. You are asking for bribes [from businessmen] in return for pledging tenders. In one of your statements, you said: ‘I have never seen a thief learning how to steal from his son. It descends from father to son,’” Kılıçdaroğlu said. “You have pulled your own son into corruption and graft. Aren’t you aware what kind of a sin you have committed?”

Showing a picture taken three weeks before the Dec. 17, 2013, operation that showed Erdoğan and the now-arrested Reza Sarrab, along with other allegedly corrupt former ministers, Kılıçdaroğlu called the prime minister to immediately submit a summary of proceedings about four of his ministers to Parliament.

“Mr. Recep, even if we bring all washing machines together, they won’t be enough to clear the dirt on you. You should immediately send these proceedings. Otherwise I will write the title of ‘chief thief’ on your forehead,” he said.

Claiming that Erdoğan accepted two villas from a businessman in return for easing zoning restrictions in Urla, near İzmir, just after sacking the former governor for refusing to do so, Kılıçdaroğlu said, “I cannot understand their interests in villas; especially villas with pools.” 

He also read the transcript of an alleged voice recording between Erdoğan and a businessman on the Urla villas. Hmmmm.....Obama's BFF Erdogan.....'A man is known by the company he keeps'