iran spliced the tape.
Well, it seems pretty easy to determine if the tapes were faked. Did the son hide the money, as the tape instructed?
If so, then the tapes aren’t fake.
Only a matter of weeks before Erdogan goes down, and a sudden rush by minor parties for another election. The military will sit there and just grin....when they wanted to do a coup a couple of years ago...they got stopped by Erdogan.
Erdogen made a simple but devastating blunder: one lie is always more persuasive than two lies.
First, outrage about phone tapping only matters when nothing of value was tapped. But he basically did the Bart Simpson of saying “I Didn’t Do It. Nobody Saw Me Do It. There’s No Way You Can Prove Anything!”
The difference is Erdogan can find enough pious Muslims to keep firing at unarmed protesters indefinitely.