BBC News | Calls for Turkey PM Recip Tayyip Erdogan to resign in leaked tape scandal euronews A voice recording said to be of a telephone conversation between Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his son Bilal is at the centre of the latest political storm in Turkey. In the conversation the pair allegedly discuss how to hide large ... A Tempest of Fear in Turkey Turkey PM Erdogan says 'tapped' phone call to son 'fabricated' Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan slams 'treacherous' recording |
BBC News | Turkey prosecutors 'tapped thousands of phones' BBC News Mr Gulen has been accused of running a "parallel state" in Turkey, controlling groups of police, lawyers and politicians. He denies the claims. The latest allegations came in two pro-government newspapers, Yeni Safak and Star. The Star reported that ... |
Turkey's Internet Crackdown New York Times President Abdullah Gul, Turkey's head of state, has now joined Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the government's assault on free speech. On Tuesday, Mr. Gul approved a new law, passed earlier by Parliament, that is intended to help protect Mr. |
'Parallel state' phone-tapped thousands in Turkey - officials Reuters UK ANKARA (Reuters) - The network of a U.S.-based cleric illegally tapped thousands of telephones in Turkey to blackmail and concoct criminal cases as part of a campaign of covert influence over government, a top adviser to Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan ... |
Turkish PM says tapes of talk with son a fabrication Reuters ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's Prime Minister accused political enemies of hacking encrypted state communications to fake a phone conversation suggesting he warned his son to hide large sums of money before police raids in a graft inquiry that reached ... |
Is instability the 'new normal' for Turkey? CNN International (CNN) -- With elections scheduled for August, Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan needs this year to be better than the last. But just six months after the damaging Gezi Park protests, the Turkish government is now engulfed in a wide-ranging ... |
Turkey: A pirates' bazaar of bootleg tapes Financial Times Recep Tayyip Erdogan, prime minister for more than a decade, said this month that “everybody” in Turkey had been wiretapped – he himself, President Abdullah Gul, executives and journalists – for purposes of blackmail. Rather endearingly, Mr Erdogan ... |
Allies Intensify Pressure on Turkey Over China Missile Deal DefenseNews.com A foreign-supplied Patriot missile launcher is pictured at a Turkish military base in Gaziantep in February 2013. NATO allies have stepped up pressure on Turkey to walk away from a deal to purchase an anti-missile system from China. Other bidders ... |
Telegraph.co.uk | Turkey PM says incriminating tapes are fake Telegraph.co.uk The office of Turkey's prime minister has said that recordings of allegedly wiretapped conversations between the Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his son - leaked onto the internet and suggesting corruption - were fabricated. In recent weeks ... |
Hurriyet Daily News | UN chief asks Turkey for troops to Central African Republic Hurriyet Daily News U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in order to encourage Turkey to play an active role in a military mission to help end sectarian unrest in the Central African Republic. During the conversation which took ... |