Turkish ministers quit
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Turkey's Interior Minister Muammer Guler, here third from the left, and the Economic Minister Zafer Caglayan, quit on Christmas eve.
Each has a son among the 24 people arrested in a corruption inquiry involving the chief of state-run lender Halkbank.
Neither minister's been implicated in the scandal and both say their children are innocent.
Turkey's prime minister has responded to the investigation by purging police officers involved including the head of the force in Istanbul where Halkbank is based.
Tayyip Erdogan's portraying the scandal as a foreign-orchestrated effort to sow seeds of discord in Turkey.
The country's flourished economically during his three terms although the Islamist-rooted premier's been accused of authoritarianism.
The affair has reignited anti-Erdogan sentiment among many Turks which had been simmering since a wave of mass protests against his rule earlier in t
Turkey's Interior Minister Muammer Guler, here third from the left, and the Economic Minister Zafer Caglayan, quit on Christmas eve.
Each has a son among the 24 people arrested in a corruption inquiry involving the chief of state-run lender Halkbank.
Neither minister's been implicated in the scandal and both say their children are innocent.
Turkey's prime minister has responded to the investigation by purging police officers involved including the head of the force in Istanbul where Halkbank is based.
Tayyip Erdogan's portraying the scandal as a foreign-orchestrated effort to sow seeds of discord in Turkey.
The country's flourished economically during his three terms although the Islamist-rooted premier's been accused of authoritarianism.
The affair has reignited anti-Erdogan sentiment among many Turks which had been simmering since a wave of mass protests against his rule earlier in t
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