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17.12 25.12 17–25 DECEMBER 2013 · TURKEY
17 DEC · 25 DEC 2013 · THE FILE

17–25 DECEMBERCorruption investigations

The December 17 and December 25 investigations, the obstruction process, and the counter-case against the officers who conducted the investigations. A readable archive built around chronology, evidence and documents.

500+documents and searchable text files.
17 - 25 Dec.obstruction process and counter-case.
DocumentsPolice reports, non-prosecution orders, indictments, hearing records, petitions and more.
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Where to start?

17 DEC 2013

REZA ZARRAB FILE

Breaching the Iran sanctions via Halkbank; bribes to ministers; fictitious transit trade; cash in shoeboxes. Istanbul Chief Prosecutor file 2012/120653.

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25 DEC 2013

25 DECEMBER FILE

15 separate tender frauds; media pool bribery; Etiler Police Academy land; Yasin Al-Qadi connection; TÜRGEV lands. File 2012/656.

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Chronology

A combined 2012-present timeline of the two investigations, obstruction process, counter-cases and U.S./Halkbank line.

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THIRD READING

Counter Case

The cases filed against the Financial Crimes officers; indictment analysis, defenses, reasoned judgment critique and prison conditions.

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PROCESS

Obstruction

Non-execution of court orders, removal of prosecutors, non-prosecution orders and access-to-evidence problems.

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ARCHIVE

Documents

Police reports, non-prosecution orders, indictments, hearing records and petitions, with full text and original copies.

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Featured categories

17 DEC · BRIBERY 01

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 02

Halkbank 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 03

Media pool

Sabah-ATV acquisition, pool financing, money allegedly collected from businessmen, and the media ownership structure in the file.

$550M
25 DEC · LAND 04

Public lands and zoning

Etiler Police Academy, TÜRGEV lands, Urla villas, and allegations about public land, zoning and municipal processes.

Etiler / TÜRGEV / Urla
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Sections

/investigations

Investigations

Summaries, timelines and legal basis of 17 & 25 December.

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/evidence

Evidence

Categories of acts in both files; open-source citations under each claim.

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/obstruction

Obstruction

Parallel cover-up processes; sham non-prosecution orders; TIB leak.

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/counter-case

Counter Case

"Coup attempt" prosecution of the Financial Crimes officers; 120 lies; prison conditions.

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/documents

Documents

Police reports, indictments, KYOK orders, AYM/ECtHR files, the U.S. case.

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/actors

Actors

Prosecutors, judges, police chiefs and political figures behind the cover-up.

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/international

International

ECtHR rulings, EU progress reports, UN bodies, U.S. Atilla case.

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Featured documents

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Why this site exists

Editor's note

The 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