'Slim Chances' of Prosecution Seen in Turkish Corruption Probe

On December 17 last year, Turks awoke to reports of police raids against relatives of senior government ministers. Images of police carrying shoeboxes full of cash from a banker’s home became synonymous with the probe. In the following days, recordings emerged that implicated Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who then was prime minister and now is president, as well as members of his family. But a year later, said political scientist Cengiz Aktar of Istanbul’s Suleyman Sah University, the allegations...

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