May 27, 2012
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Prime minister’s nephew convicted of drug trafficking
13 February 2010 / TODAY’S ZAMAN, İSTANBUL
Mehmet Erdoğan, the nephew of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has been convicted on charges of drug trafficking and sentenced to prison by an İstanbul court, the Vatan daily reported yesterday.
Erdoğan, was taken into police custody on Monday in a raid that was part of an anti-drug operation carried out in İstanbul. After the operation, launched upon information received from the Diyarbakır police, teams detained 12 suspects, including Erdoğan’s nephew, and seized 50 kilograms of heroin.
Vatan reported that Erdoğan did not seek any special treatment for his nephew after his detention and claimed that when the prime minister was informed by police that his nephew was among the detainees, he ordered that the judicial process continue, saying, “Do what the law requires.”
After the operation the detainees were interrogated by the police for three days and then taken to the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Wednesday.
Following their interrogation by prosecutors they were tried and convicted by an İstanbul court. The court handed down prison sentences to seven of the 12 suspects, including the prime minister’s nephew Mehmet Erdoğan.
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