Corruption of a much greater magnitude there, implicating President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his family, has gone untouched. A probe by Turkish prosecutors against Erdoğan in 2013 was clearly politically motivated (and driven by Erdoğan’s foes in the movement headed by Fethullah Gülen, a self-exiled Islamic preacher), which gave the government the cover needed to quash the investigation.
巴西与土耳其的对比极为引人注目。牵扯到总统埃尔多安及其家人的规模大得多的腐败都没有得到调查。土耳其检察官2013年对埃尔多安的调查明显出于政治动机（背后的推动者是反对运动领导人法土拉·葛兰，埃尔多安自我流放的伊斯兰传教士对手），而这给了政府所需的撤销调查的借口。土耳其经济并没有遭受像巴西那么大的损失，但腐败带来的长期破坏将更为显著。