Murky Turkish soccer politics mesh with massive corruption scandal
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…