In Turkey, when is a ‘gold-plated toilet’ just a figure of speech?

On Tuesday, just days before an important vote, Recep Tayyip Erdogan's attorney told reporters that the Turkish president would be seeking 100,000 Turkish lira ($37,000) in compensation from opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu. Kilicdaroglu, head of the secularist Republican People's Party (CHP), is running against Ahmet Davutoglu of Erdogan's Justice and Development Party in Sunday's election. His alleged […]









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