JohnnyAdam – Kerajaan Turki adalah dalam kegawatan selepas 3 menteri kabinet meletak jawatan dalam ruang satu hari. Ketiga-tiga mereka berhenti di tengah-tengah peringkat tinggi rasuah siasatan menyelubungi AK Parti pemerintah. Menteri Alam Sekitar Erdogan Bayraktar, menolak dakwaan telah terdapat tekanan ke atas beliau meletak, memecahkan pangkat dengan parti dan berkata jika dia pergi, Perdana Menteri Recep Tayyip Erdogan harus mengikuti.
Walaupun Erdogan memilih untuk tidak mengulas mengenai peletakan jawatan , beliau mempertahankan partinya dalam ucapan pada Rabu, berkata ia berhutang kejayaan kepada kejujuran, komitmen ke Turki dan kesungguhan untuk memerangi rasuah. Tetapi untuk perkara-perkara Erdogan telah pergi dari buruk. Sekarang bekas Menteri Dalam Negeri berkata, beliau meninggalkan barisan AK Parti.
Berlepas kabinet ikut penangkapan anak-anak tiga menteri polis melancarkan siasatan ke dalam tuntutan rasuah melibatkan Halkbank negeri yang dikendalikan. Anak-anak Menteri Interior Muammer Güler dan Menteri Ekonomi Zafer Caglayan kekal dalam tahanan, bersama-sama dengan 22 yang lain termasuk ketua bank, Suleyman Aslan. Anak Menteri Alam Sekitar telah dibebaskan tanpa caj.
Turkey: Embattled Erdogan defends AK Party
as trio of ministers resign . . .
Turkey's government is in turmoil after three cabinet ministers resigned in the space of a single day. The trio quit amid a high-level corruption probe engulfing the ruling AK Party. Environment Minister Erdogan Bayraktar, rejecting allegations there had been pressure on him to step down, broke ranks with the party and said that if he was to go, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan should follow suit.
While Erdogan chose not to comment on the resignations, he defended his party in a speech on Wednesday, saying it owed its success to honesty, commitment to Turkey and its determination to fight against corruption. But for Erdogan things have gone from bad to worse. Now a former interior minister says he is leaving AK Party ranks.
The cabinet departures follow the arrests of sons of the three ministers as police unveiled a probe into corruption claims involving the state-run Halkbank. The sons of Interior Minister Muammer Guler and Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan remain in custody, along with 22 others including the head of the bank, Suleyman Aslan. The Environment Minister's son was released without charge.
Kerajaan Erdogan Turki digegarkan
oleh kuasa
rasuah . . .
JohnnyAdam – Di mata orang
Turki banyak yang menentang, kuasa autoritarian Perdana Menteri mereka adalah
di bawah tekanan kerana mungkin tidak pernah sebelum ini. Islam umbi AK pihak
Recep Tayyip Erdogan dilihat telah mengalami pukulan.
Ini
datang di tengah-tengah kebimbangan yang meluas bahawa kebebasan badan
kehakiman boleh disalahgunakan dalam penyiasatan skandal rasuah besar
melibatkan menteri-menteri dalam kerajaan Erdogan.
Hari
selepas tangkapan awal, beliau bercakap mengenai manipulasi politik. Beliau
berkata: “Ini adalah satu operasi yang sangat kotor.” Pada hujung minggu,
kerajaan Erdogan berubah peraturan polis, jadi pegawai penyiasat perlu
melaporkan bukti, tangkapan dan aduan kepada pemerintah pegawai dan pendakwa.
Perjuangan
Ankara terhadap anti-rasuah siasatan badan kehakiman telah melihat dia memecat
atau menyerahhakkan semula 70 pegawai-pegawai polis yang terlibat, termasuk
ketua tenaga Istanbul. Penyokong Perdana Menteri meningkat pada pembelaannya.
Skandal
terbaru telah meletakkan persaingan kosong antara Erdogan dan Fethullah Gulen,
seorang ulama Turki yang kini menetap di Amerika Syarikat, yang penterjemah
pergerakan mendakwa sekurang-kurangnya satu juta pengikut, termasuk kanan polis
dan hakim, dan yang juga berjalan sekolah-sekolah dan badan amal di seluruh
Turki dan di luar negara.
Walaupun
tidak dinamakan di dalam urusan ini, dan menafikan sebarang peranan di
dalamnya, selepas perdana menggambarkan dirinya sebagai menangkis konspirasi
antarabangsa, Gulen berkata pemikiran Erdogan telah “reput”. Penterjemah Gulen
ini (“Perkhidmatan”) pergerakan juga mempunyai ahli-ahli dalam pemerintah AK
parti. Apa-apa pakatan parti tersebut dengannya - yang menjamin kejayaan
pilihan raya AK itu sehingga 2011 - mula runtuh beberapa bulan yang lalu.
Keputusan
pada November untuk menutup salah satu pertubuhan pendidikan confraternity ini
membawa penjanaan perisai, dan berlepas dari pihak Erdogan daripada 2 orang
ahli parlimen.
Peletakan
jawatan dalaman, ekonomi dan alam sekitar menteri atas dakwaan rasuah yang
melibatkan pemberi pinjaman negeri yang dikendalikan Halkbank menyumbang kepada
reigniting perasaan anti-kerajaan, yang telah menggelegak sejak massa jalan-bantahan
di pertengahan tahun ini. Salah satu perhimpunan bantahan yang paling baru-baru
ini di Istanbul telah secara paksa tersebar oleh pihak polis.
Turkey's Erdogan government rocked by corruption
forces
In the
eyes of many dissenting Turks, the authoritarian power of their Prime Minister
is under pressure as perhaps never before. Recep Tayyip Erdogan's
Islamist-rooted AK party is seen to have suffered a blow.
This
comes amid widespread concerns that the independence of the judiciary could be
abused in the investigation into a vast corruption scandal involving ministers
in Erdogan's government.
The day
after early arrests, he spoke of political manipulations. He said: "This
is an extremely dirty operation." At the weekend, the Erdogan government
changed police rules, so investigating officers have to report evidence,
arrests and complaints to commanding officers and prosecutors.
Ankara's
fight against the judiciary's anti-corruption probe has seen him sack or
reassign some 70 of the police officers involved, including the chief of the
Istanbul force. The prime minister's supporters rallied in his defence.
The
latest scandal has laid bare rivalry between Erdogan and Fethullah Gulen, a
Turkish cleric now based in the US, whose Hizmet movement claims at least one
million followers, including senior police and judges, and which also runs
schools and charities across Turkey and abroad.
While
not named in the affair, and denying any role in it, after the premier
portrayed himself as fending off an international conspiracy, Gulen said
Erdogan's thinking had "decayed". Gulen's Hizmet
("Service") movement even has members within the ruling AK party. Any
alliance the party had with it - which sealed the AK's electoral success up
until 2011 - began to fall apart several months ago.
A
decision in November to close one of the confraternity's educational
establishments brought a raising of shields, and the departure from Erdogan's
party of two members of parliament.
The resignations of the
interior, economy and environment ministers over corruption allegations
involving state-run lender Halkbank contributed to reigniting anti-government
feeling, which has been simmering since mass street-protests halfway through
this year. One of the most recent protest rallies in Istanbul was forcibly
dispersed by the police.
