{"id":4324,"date":"2008-09-18T21:08:57","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T18:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/09\/18\/turkey%e2%80%99s-row-over-corruption\/"},"modified":"2013-10-12T22:28:12","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T19:28:12","slug":"turkeys-row-over-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/09\/18\/turkeys-row-over-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey\u2019s row over corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEADERS of Turkey\u2019s ruling Justice and Development (AK) party like to boast that their acronym means \u201cwhite\u201d or \u201cclean\u201d in Turkish. No longer so. A succession of corruption allegations is sullying AK\u2019s image of probity.<\/p>\n<p>Much mud is being flung over a scandal involving a Turkish charity, Deniz Feneri (\u201cLighthouse\u201d in Turkish). On September 17th a German court convicted three Turkish men involved in the charity of siphoning off \u20ac18.6m ($26m). The money had been raised ostensibly to help needy Muslims, among them Palestinians, Turkish slum-dwellers and refugees in Pakistan. Instead the court found that some funds went to buy real estate in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/europe\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12273885\">Turkey\u2019s row over corruption | Less than white? | The Economist<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEADERS of Turkey\u2019s ruling Justice and Development (AK) party like to boast that their acronym means \u201cwhite\u201d or \u201cclean\u201d in Turkish. No longer so. A succession of corruption allegations is sullying AK\u2019s image of probity. Much mud is being flung over a scandal involving a Turkish charity, Deniz Feneri (\u201cLighthouse\u201d in Turkish). On September 17th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":641175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}