Turkey PM replaces cabinet members

[JURIST] Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan [BBC profile] on Wednesday named ten new members of his cabinet following the resignation of three members under investigation for graft. Nine of the ten new cabinet ministers are members of the ruling party, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) [party website]. Erdogan picked [Al Jazeera report] his undersecretary, an unelected official, to run the Interior Ministry. The cabinet shuffle appears to have been prompted by the growing corruption scandal. There is no...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/12/turkish-pm-replaces-cabinet-members.php

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