Once again, an explosive telephone recording has surfaced in Turkey. Allegedly, Erdogan again heard, this time he demands of his justice minister a harsh judgment against a government critical media boss. Shortly before the elections, the videos for Erdogan to a real danger.

Anonymous critics of the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan once again a video on YouTube posted late Monday on which a telephone recording can be heard. To hear is supposedly the head of government in conversation with his Minister of Justice Sadullah Ergin.

In the two phone calls that lead both men, it is about a lawsuit against the government critical media boss Aydin Dogan. Erdogan asked about the state of things. From the conversation it can be concluded that he is dissatisfied. “Take care to ensure that the matter is not neglected,” he carries on his minister. “The thing is important!”

Aydin Dogan is one of the richest entrepreneurs in Turkey. The Dogan Media Group owns television and radio stations, publishing houses, newspapers and magazines. Five years ago the Turkish authorities Dogan accused of tax evasion, and demanded of him for the sale of shares in its television division to the Axel Springer publishing a tax payment of half a billion euros.

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Aydin Dogan sees this as a politically motivated campaign against him and believes Erdogan wanted to finish him because his media covered transactions by Erdogan’s family. Erdogan has called several times in recent years for a boycott of Dogan media. “Do not buy the newspapers are full of dirt and lies,” he once called on his followers. For Dogan Group subsidiary media such as the newspaper “Hürriyet” see this as an attack on press freedom.

Whether the two men are now talking about this control process , it is not apparent from the recording. He supported the view Dogans that Erdogan had refrained it personally to him , and shows, as just the head of government has an influence on the judiciary. About a judgment against Dogan Erdogan are dissatisfied . Ergin noted that the judge was critical of the government known as Alevi .

” Where is the file to be next?” , Erdogan asked . Minister of Justice Ergin promises that there will be no more problems in the next instance . As a precaution, he notes that there is a group among the judges who do not listen to him.

Even in recent days, phone calls Erdogan on YouTube have been published. Once, on the day of raids against high-ranking politicians and businessmen for corruption , he orders his son Bilal to bring several million euros and dollars in security. Another time, he invites him to reject a multi-million dollar business because not enough money flowed .

Erdogan himself describes this video as a ” smear campaign ” and an ” assembly ” of his opponents , especially the Gülen movement , a network of his former companion of Fethullah Gülen . With this living in self-imposed exile U.S. preacher , the game provides a power struggle .

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However, Erdogan has so far denied that it is indeed his voice. A call to the message sender Haber Türk during Gezi protests in the summer of 2013, with which he took effect on the coverage, he admitted even. He had acted against “insults”, he founded the interview with a manager of the station.

With each new release, growing doubts about the position of the government, the videos were edited together from other conversations. American experts who examined the recordings on behalf of the U.S. newspaper group McClatchy, came to the conclusion that it could not act to “montages”.

On 30 March will find in Turkey rather than local, one signal for the political future of the country is expected. To Erdogan, has grown economically strong in its eleven-year tenure, the Turkey, there is a veritable cult of personality. The videos may have scratched it. Suddenly he stands not only as authoritarian, but as a rapacious government. His party, the AKP, has raised the bar now been lowered: You must be the result of the last election, 38.4 percent, to reach again.

Erdogan’s hope is that most people in Turkey hear anything from the videos. A large part of the population has no access to the Internet. The main channel is the television, and there the phone calls have not been sent. As opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu recently played to a video in Parliament, the live broadcast was canceled on television.

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