Reza Zarrab

The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Nov. 28 issued a detention warrant for former main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Aykan Erdemir, on the grounds that he provided “fake reports” as evidence for the U.S. case of Turkish-Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab

The judge in the trial of Turkish banker Mehmet Hakan Atilla announced late on Nov. 27 that a jury of 12, including six alternates, has been selected and Turkish-Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab will not face trial.

Turkish-Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab is being forced to sign “slanders against Turkey” amid threats of punishment in the U.S., Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ claimed on Nov. 27.

Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Nov. 24 that the defense team and prosecutors failed to agree on a number of disputed issues in the case of Turkish-Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab and former Halkbank deputy general manager Mehmet Hakan Atilla.

The case in the U.S. of Iranian-Turkish businessman Reza Zarrab has seen him shift from being a suspect to a witness, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has said.

The market fluctuations besetting Turkey are temporary and will pass, including those stemming from the U.S. case against Turkish-Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab, Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Şimsek said on Nov. 22.

The United States on Nov. 21 called the Turkish government’s accusations of a plot in the case of Turkish-Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab “ridiculous,” referring to an earlier response by Washington on the alleged involvement with last year’s failed coup.

An ongoing court case in the United States about Turkish-Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab over claims that he violated U.S. sanctions on Iran through Turkish banks and financial institutions is nothing but a political plot against Turkey, a senior government official has said, a week before the key jury trial.

Istanbul Chief Prosecutor’s Office has opened a probe into New York’s Preet Bharara, former U.S. Attorney in-charge of the jailed Iranian-Turkish gold trader Reza Zarrab’s case, and Joon H. Kim, Acting U.S. Attorney, on Nov. 18 over evidence used in trial of its citizens.

Neither jailed Iranian-Turkish businessman Reza Zarrab nor his lawyer attended a court hearing in Manhattan on Nov. 16 to discuss the case ahead of the trial.