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Murky Turkish soccer politics mesh with massive corruption scandal

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Feb 18, 2014
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Fenerbahce fans protest

By James M. Dorsey

Always murky, Turkish soccer politics have become even murkier as a politics-laden match-fixing scandal meshes with a corruption investigation that targets Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his closest associates.

Defendants in both scandals – Mr. Erdogan and the management of one of Turkey’s most storied cl…

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