Turkey Graft Suspects in Court as Erdogan Purges Police
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Prosecutors asked an Istanbul court to jail the sons of Turkish ministers pending trial on graft charges, stepping up a corruption probe that has shaken Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government and roiled markets.
The sons of Interior Minister Muammer Guler, Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan and Environment Minister Erdogan Bayraktar entered the court flanked by police officers, three days after they were taken into detention in a dawn raid. Prosecutors asked the court to formally arrest them, along with Suleyman Aslan, chief executive of state-run Turkiye Halk Bankasi AS, and 10 others, Hurriyet newspaper said.