Yasar Topcu, a conservative member of parliament, was very fond of his waiter at Anadolu Kulubu, the exclusive club in Ankara for MPs and senior bureaucrats. When he became minister of communications last summer, Topcu decided to do his old friend a favour. He appointed Ali Cebeci to the board of Iller Bank, a large state bank whose function is to channel billions of lira in loans to Turkey’s 3,200 municipalities. However, someone slipped the story to the media, a small scandal erupted and Cebeci was forced to give up his post.
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