A recorded telephone call, advise the alleged PM Erdogan and his son Bilal about how they can hide millions of dollars, is a godsend for opposition and government critics. On Wednesday, they distributed in Istanbul as a sign of protest counterfeit money.

Laughing pull the young men in Istanbul city center, a hand cart behind him. It is filled with bundles of currency: a block of tickets, 30 million euros. The bills are not real, it’s fake money – and the sum of a reference to a published Monday night YouTube video, talk about it in the alleged Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his son in a total of five phone calls, as several million dollars, Euros and Turkish Lira can bring to anti-corruption investigators in safety.

“We also have 30 million euros,” calling the protesters near Taksim Square and laugh. “How do we hide so much money?” Then they resort to the wrong notes and distribute them to passers-by. “Take it, take it, we have enough of it! Main thing, it’s gone and no one finds it.” On Wednesday, the largest opposition party, the CHP, called for a rally in Istanbul.

Taksim Square is blocked due to the announced demonstration. Mayoral candidate Mustafa Sarigül is there, and the video is a godsend for him and his party. On 30 March, municipal, and in Istanbul would Sarigül against incumbent Kadir Topbas, a party colleague Erdogan win. Hitherto been incurred rather through internal partisan chaos CHP hopes to have a ripple effect for the parliamentary elections in the coming year of his election victory.

Protesters hold placards with quotes from the talks high and also Sarigül cited relish it. He says now clear how corrupt Erdogan was. Then he complains about the suppression of critical reporting, the fact that, for example, on Tuesday, a transfer from CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu was interrupted in the moment of just wanted to play for the recordings. “This is censorship!” The demonstrators rant on Taksim Square.

Amused, though many, are about Erdogan’s son Bilal, acting stupidly in the recordings. For the demonstrators, he is now a figure of ridicule. “Now we know why Erdogan all Turkish women three children recommends”, is a slogan that is making the rounds. Erdogan himself has four children.

Erdogan Phone Leak Scandal:Bitter dispute over the authenticity of the recordings

So uniformly the mood here is so ambiguous it is overall in Turkey. Erdogan supporters and its critics across the country argue bitterly about the authenticity of the recordings , which the Prime Minister himself as a ” dirty conspiracy ” and ” assembly without any relation to reality.” On Twitter and Facebook they post, depending on the storage , alleged proofs of the authenticity of the recordings or that it is a fake. The government has also launched an offensive against illegal recordings of phone calls by the prosecutor .

Signed Ironically, on Wednesday President Abdullah Gül a controversial law , reinforced with the government their influence on the judiciary . Accordingly, the executive gets more control over the High Council of Judges and Prosecutors , who is responsible for the appointment and supervision of judges and prosecutors. Critics warn that this independence of the judiciary is jeopardized . Gul stressed , therefore, that he had changes in points enforced , which he considered unconstitutional. Everything else should decide the Constitutional Court.

Last week he signed a controversial Internet law also, that the government may block content on the Internet without prior judicial approval. She attributes this to the “protection of personal rights” in the network and with the “Prevention of Insults”. Also in this Act Gul had requested changes that were decided today by the Parliament in Ankara.

Erdogan Phone Leak Scandal:Critics fear censorship

Now, the Telecommunications Authority may indeed block websites without a court order , but must inform the court within 24 hours of it. The court in turn then have 48 hours time to decide on the lock and make , if necessary reversed. Is also an access to user data , as originally proceed , not as comprehensive possible. Critics see this as a censorship and fear that the government is more than ever hinder critical reporting .

On the edge of the rally, people who do not participate are available in the Call . A woman says to the question of what the think of Erdogan : “I do not think he has so much money and if he did get it from rich people in order to do something good for Turkey. . ” She seems to be a big fan , because she says: ” I ​​congratulate him on his 60th birthday today ” A protester , who know it, then says : “Well, we will see Maybe emerged today as a gift so a new video on that will sharpen your look a bit . ? ”

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