{"id":572988,"date":"2026-09-01T21:58:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=572988"},"modified":"2026-09-02T09:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T06:16:06","slug":"former-turkish-interior-minister-admits-providing-car-to-lukashenka-s-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/former-turkish-interior-minister-admits-providing-car-to-lukashenka-s-son","title":{"rendered":"Former Turkish Interior Minister Admits Providing Car to Lukashenka’s Son"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Turkish Interior Minister \u0130dris Naim \u015eahin<\/strong> testified in an Ankara court in the case involving religious figure Alihan Kuri\u015f<\/strong> and the S\u00fcleymanc\u0131lar movement he leads. One of Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s<\/strong> sons was also mentioned in the testimony.<\/p>\n

Turkish authorities accuse the leaders of S\u00fcleymanc\u0131lar of forming a criminal organization, money laundering, fraud and financial misconduct. Dozens of suspects have been detained in the high-profile case.<\/p>\n

As previously reported, people close to Kuri\u015f used vehicles registered to the former minister. In August this year, one of the vehicles carried three mysterious Belarusian citizens with diplomatic passports<\/a>. \u015eahin’s testimony indicates that one of the Belarusians was one of Lukashenka’s<\/strong> sons.<\/p>\n

In court, \u015eahin said that he had provided an Audi Q7 registered in his name to a delegation arriving from Belarus. The vehicle was involved in an accident in Bodrum. To prevent the Belarusian guests from being left in a difficult situation, \u015eahin provided them with another vehicle, tv100.com writes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00d6m\u00fcr Y\u00fccel<\/strong> was responsible for arranging vehicles and accommodation for the Belarusians. According to Y\u00fccel’s testimony included in the case file, he received the vehicle in Istanbul. He then drove it to Bodrum together with Lukashenka’s son and his bodyguards.<\/p>\n

“The flashing beacon was removed from the vehicle and left with the delegation, and the vehicle was later involved in an accident,”<\/em> the outlet reports. It is unclear from the publication whether anyone from the Belarusian delegation was in the vehicle at the time of the accident.<\/p>\n

\u015eahin was also asked in court whether he was aware of information sent to the Turkish authorities in 2011 about Turkish businessmen being blackmailed using women from Belarus. \u015eahin, who served as interior minister from 2011 to 2013, said he had no knowledge of such information but knew three individuals identified in the report as being involved in the scheme.<\/p>\n

Information about three Belarusian citizens with diplomatic passports appearing in the case against S\u00fcleymanc\u0131lar emerged last week.<\/p>\n

It was reported that the three Belarusian citizens arrived in Turkey via Bodrum Airport on August 6. An automatic vehicle recognition system recorded all three in a car traveling on the G\u00fcvercinlik\u2013Torba route on August 21. Later that day, they switched to another vehicle in Bursa, and on August 22 they flew from Turkey to Minsk.<\/p>\n

It was also reported that the Belarusian citizens used two SIM cards that had been activated in \u00d6m\u00fcr Y\u00fccel’s name several days earlier.<\/p>\n

It should be noted that members of Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s<\/strong> entourage have been vacationing in Bodrum for years. The government business jet EW-301PJ is frequently used for these flights<\/a>. In July and August this year, the aircraft flew between Minsk and Bodrum several times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Turkish Interior Minister \u0130dris Naim \u015eahin testified in an Ankara court in the case involving religious figure Alihan Kuri\u015f and the S\u00fcleymanc\u0131lar movement he leads. One of Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s sons was also mentioned in the testimony. Turkish authorities accuse the leaders of S\u00fcleymanc\u0131lar of forming a criminal organization, money laundering, fraud and financial misconduct. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":572987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6a97bf2f1e6cb.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Former Turkish Interior Minister Admits Providing Car to Lukashenka\u2019s Son"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}