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REZA ZARRAB FILE
Breaching the Iran sanctions via Halkbank; bribes to ministers; fictitious transit trade; cash in shoeboxes. Istanbul Chief Prosecutor file 2012/120653.
OPEN 25 DEC 201325 DECEMBER FILE
15 separate tender frauds; media pool bribery; Etiler Police Academy land; Yasin Al-Qadi connection; TÜRGEV lands. File 2012/656.
OPENChronology
A combined 2012-present timeline of the two investigations, obstruction process, counter-cases and U.S./Halkbank line.
Open THIRD READINGCounter Case
The cases filed against the Financial Crimes officers; indictment analysis, defenses, reasoned judgment critique and prison conditions.
Open PROCESSObstruction
Non-execution of court orders, removal of prosecutors, non-prosecution orders and access-to-evidence problems.
Open ARCHIVEDocuments
Police reports, non-prosecution orders, indictments, hearing records and petitions, with full text and original copies.
OpenFeatured categories
Bribery allegations involving ministers
Zafer Çağlayan, Muammer Güler, Egemen Bağış and related political responsibility headings; money flows and case records.
Dec. 17 17 DEC · BANK 02Halkbank and sanctions evasion
Halkbank, the Reza Zarrab network, alleged Iran sanctions evasion, money laundering, the MIT warning and the U.S. case.
Halkbank / U.S. 25 DEC · MEDIA 03Media pool
Sabah-ATV acquisition, pool financing, money allegedly collected from businessmen, and the media ownership structure in the file.
$550M 25 DEC · LAND 04Public lands and zoning
Etiler Police Academy, TÜRGEV lands, Urla villas, and allegations about public land, zoning and municipal processes.
Etiler / TÜRGEV / UrlaSections
Investigations
Summaries, timelines and legal basis of 17 & 25 December.
Open/evidenceEvidence
Categories of acts in both files; open-source citations under each claim.
Open/obstructionObstruction
Parallel cover-up processes; sham non-prosecution orders; TIB leak.
Open/counter-caseCounter Case
"Coup attempt" prosecution of the Financial Crimes officers; 120 lies; prison conditions.
Open/documentsDocuments
Police reports, indictments, KYOK orders, AYM/ECtHR files, the U.S. case.
Open/actorsActors
Prosecutors, judges, police chiefs and political figures behind the cover-up.
Open/internationalInternational
ECtHR rulings, EU progress reports, UN bodies, U.S. Atilla case.
OpenLive archive
UpdatesWhy this site exists
Editor's noteThe December 17 and 25, 2013 investigations entered the record not only as criminal investigations, but as one of the breaking points in the relationship between the judiciary, politics, law enforcement and the media in Turkey. The investigations were closed in a short time; the law-enforcement officers who worked on the files were later turned into defendants of the investigations themselves.
This project was prepared to bring together scattered documents, decisions, indictments, hearing records and reports within a single chronology. Its purpose is not to deliver a verdict, but to make it possible to follow how the process began, how it was obstructed, how it was closed, and how it later turned into a counter-case.
The narratives under each heading are based on public sources and verifiable documents.
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." — Milan Kundera