“Ten million dollars is not enough”: In a new uploaded on YouTube telephone replay of the Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan urges his son to allegedly reject a pipeline deal. One more proof of corruption? Or part of a smear campaign?

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes no secret of the fact that he hates the Internet and especially Twitter and Facebook. During the Gezi protests against his authoritarian style of government last summer, he has thundered again and again against the social media. His mood is likely to have been very little improvement, as always dive in the network on new phone recordings in which he is supposed to hear with his son, Bilal.

Late Wednesday night again invited an anonymous user of a video on YouTube and announced it on via Twitter . The whistleblower call themselves ” Haramzadeler “, literally ” sin reigns ,” and prepare the Government of Erdogan for weeks headaches.
In the latest video , two men on Turkish talk just for a minute together, it can be heard the voices of an older and a younger man – just allegedly Erdogan and his son . The elder said to the younger , he should refuse to pay more than ten million dollars.

The newspaper “Today ‘s Zaman ” According to this involves money from Sitki Ayan , a businessman from the oil industry , the government has given approval for new lines between Iran and Turkey. The alleged Erdogan said that the amount was too low.

” Do not take it . He will provide whatever he has promised us . , If he does not pay it, we do not need it ” , is heard . “The others pay . Why does not he do it ? What do people think , what is this business?” In the end he calmed the younger : “But do not worry, in the end it falls into our laps . ”

Turkey Whistleblower:Erdogan pressed to explain

It is the second video this week, which brings Erdogan pressed to explain . On Monday evening recordings had surfaced of phone calls in which the Elder tells the younger to bring several million Euro , Dollar and Turkish Lira to safety. These talks are calculated on 17 and 18th Have been conducted December when the corruption scandal began and investigators conducted raids at senior politicians and businessmen . In the fifth week of the alleged son says it is still has not managed to put aside $ 30 million.

Since the beginning of the affair also Bilal Erdogan is suspected of being involved in corruption. In early February , he was questioned by the public prosecutor in Istanbul after his interrogation had been prevented by the previous disciplinary transfer of investigators . The allegation is that he had received as head of a foundation that students and school dormitories builds and operates , advantages in the allocation of land and building rights . Businessmen who are under suspicion of corruption should also have the Foundation generously provided land available or worked for free for them.

Turkish newspaper reports that Bilal Erdogan months, has been intercepted and shadowed . The prosecutor would therefore logs of telephone conversations and photos submitted to – in the opinion of Prime Minister Erdogan illegal documents because the investigators would have had no right to listen to his son. The government accuses the prosecutors before anyway , to have up to 7,000 politicians, businessmen, journalists and artists eavesdropped illegally .

Turkey Whistleblower:For the opposition, the videos are a gift

The government has always the new recordings as ” fakes ” back . The were ” immoral montages ,” says Erdogan , in order to overthrow ” dirty conspiracy ” of his opponents him. By this he means his former companions Fethullah Gülen and his network , with which he delivers in a bitter power struggle. Erdogan is on the defensive. On Tuesday, he spoke of a ” robot lobby ” that was at work . A previously published telephone conversation with a manager of the news channel Haber Türk, in which the head of government is engaged in reporting , the head of government had granted . But he was there proceeded only against ” insults ,” he said.

The bizarre battle for the image that will be performed especially on the Internet . Erdogan pendant Post alleged evidence , after which the recordings are fake on Twitter and Facebook. His opponents in turn spread their view that the recordings are genuine. Even neutral observers disagree . Some suggest that a tangle of Erdogan family fit into the overall picture. Others point out that the conversations sound like read and Erdogan, in one of the calls himself refers it, one was being tapped , such calls would never lead .

For the opposition, they are so or as a gift – it uses them, in order to make the election campaign. On 30 March, municipal , one of which direction decision is expected . Until then, should not show more video.

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