Erdoğan advisor says mob boss Peker serves anti-Turkey 'alliance of evil'

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Senior Presidential Advisor Oktay Saral has dismissed organized crime boss Sedat Peker's allegations against government officials, saying that he was talking "rubbish."

"With his rubbish statements, Peker has demonstrated that he is at the service of the enemies of Turkey and all the alliances of evil inside [the country]," he wrote on Twitter. "Our state will do what is necessary and any power will know that this country cannot be shaken by such nonsense."

His statement came after Peker's latest video yesterday (May 30), where he accused two aides of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of organizing illicit oil trade and delivering weapons to the Nusra Front.

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In the eighth episode of his online confessions, the mafia boss said his next video would be about Erdoğan. Peker hasn't directly made an accusation against the president yet, claiming that he is being misinformed by those around him.

Formerly a pro-government figure, Peker has been living abroad since late 2019. In early May, he started his YouTube videos on mafia-state relations, making serious accusations against former and current government officials. His eight videos have received more than 70 million views so far.

"We'll talk in the next video, brother Tayyip, together, one-on-one, like an elder brother and younger brother. With clear evidence, unknown evidence, I'll corroborate what I said," said Peker. "We'll be even, brother. I'm not a spy. I'll show this to the whole world."

After weeks of silence, the president on May 26 accused Peker, without mentioning his name, of serving Turkey's enemies plotting against the country.

"Nobody should doubt that we will foil this insidious operation," he said and defended Minister of Interior Süleyman Soylu and former PM Binali Yıldırım against Peker's claims.

Peker has released evidence of his ties to Minister of Interior Süleyman Soylu, whom he describes as "a man I've invested in for 20 years," and claimed that Yıldırım had traveled to Venezuela to organize a cocaine trafficking scheme from Colombia to Turkey.

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(AS/VK)