It may be just an ordinary, placid Christmas for most of the world, but Dec. 25, 2013, will go down in history as the day of sheer nightmare for Turkey’s once so invincible, unchallenged, popular Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
He saw three key ministers step down, as his seemingly solid political power was shattered and his government sinks deeper due to a massive graft probe, which in accusations for bribery involves four ministers with amounts adding to roughly $130 million. Later on Dec. 25, he felt forced to reshuffle the cabinet — replacing 10 ministers — which, however, still left him treading uncertain political ground. His days of glory, arrogance and focus of admiration have turned into a fragile, open-ended quest for political survival.
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He saw three key ministers step down, as his seemingly solid political power was shattered and his government sinks deeper due to a massive graft probe, which in accusations for bribery involves four ministers with amounts adding to roughly $130 million. Later on Dec. 25, he felt forced to reshuffle the cabinet — replacing 10 ministers — which, however, still left him treading uncertain political ground. His days of glory, arrogance and focus of admiration have turned into a fragile, open-ended quest for political survival.
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