Turkish Twitter user: Erdogan to target CHP-linked bank

Fuat Avni, the handle of an anonymous Twitter user who has successfully revealed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s moves in the past, just issued another explosive prediction.
Bank Asya headquarters is pictured in Istanbul February 4, 2015. Turkey has taken control of Bank Asya, the Islamic lender caught up in a feud between President Tayyip Erdogan and his ally-turned-foe, U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen. The action by Turkey's banking regulatory authorities follows a run on deposits at Bank Asya last year when the lender became embroiled in the power struggle between Erdogan and Gulen, whose followers had set up the bank. REUTERS/Murad Sezer (TURKEY - Tags: BUSINESS LO
Bank Asya headquarters is pictured in Istanbul, Feb. 4, 2015. - REUTERS/Murad Sezer
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Then they came for Is Bankasi. If we are to believe Turkey’s “Deep Throat,” Fuat Avni (the handle of an anonymous Twitter user), the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) plans to take over Is Bankasi, the country’s largest bank, for alleged embezzlement.

More explosive is Avni’s claim on Twitter that the main opposition group, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), will be taken to the Constitutional Court and shut down for its purported role in the embezzlement.

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