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Niyazi Dalyancı The ruling AKP (Justice and Development Party) decided to set up two working groups that will probe into possibilities of taking up legal action against the diplomatic correspondence between the U.S. diplomats in Ankara and Washington revealed by Wikileaks accusing Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and some ministers for corruption. Huseyin Celik, the deputy chairman of AKP told journalists that the documents were being studied and “necessary initiatives will be taken.” Turkish press reported that during the AKP Central Committee meeting earlier this week, the documents revealed by Wikileaks were discussed and it was decided to find a formula to resort to legal action against them. For this purpose two working groups, one at the Justice Ministry with the participation of AKP legal experts and another one at the Foreign Ministry will be examining the possibility of legal action. Diplomats protected under Vienna Convention Some experts say that the Vienna Convention of 1961 regulating diplomatic relations provide diplomatic immunity for the U.S. diplomats who have written the secret reports incriminating Turkish government members and businessmen close to AKP. “Third is corruption. AKP swept to power by promising to root out corruption. However, in increasing numbers AKPers from ministers on down, and people close to the party, are telling us of conflicts of interest or serious corruption in the party at the national, provincial and local level and among close family members of ministers. We have heard from two contacts that Erdogan has eight accounts in Swiss banks;his explanations that his wealth comes from the wedding presents guests gave his son and that a Turkish businessman is paying the educational expenses of all four Erdogan children in the U.S. purely altruistically are lame,” wrote U.S. Ambassador Eric Edelman in 2004 in a classified correspondence to Washington. The document created uproar […]