Fatwa emerges in Turkish corruption allegations
What is the role of political Islam in the allegations of corruption against the government of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan?
Turkey has been living through extraordinary developments in recent weeks. Almost daily, voice recordings said to belong to the prime minister, his relatives or ministers spill onto the Internet.
In these recordings, momentous allegations are heard of the prime minister taking bribes, the prime minister giving instructions to relocate billions of dollars from his and relatives’ residences and contractors who are awarded contracts by the state being required to donate considerable sums of money to a foundation headed by the prime minister’s son.
These tape recordings that appear nearly every day on the Internet, and especially via Twitter, are likely one of the key reasons for the ban on Twitter in Turkey.
Despite all these ominous allegations, there are no mass separations and resignations from the Justice and Development Party (AKP), and the prime minister’s absolute denials of any kind of corruption are hard to overlook.
