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Turkey defeated Greece 80-71 on June 5 to win the bronze medal at the FIBA U-19 World Championship, held in Crete, as the United States clinched the title. 

Turkey's trip to the podium marks its best ever result in the tournament. 

One of the prosecutors of the huge Dec. 17, 2013 corruption case, which embroiled many high-profile suspects including former cabinet ministers, has said the former ministers played two key roles in helping Iran break the U.S. embargo: Organizing fake documents, and making sure that Reza Zarrab remained the sole actor in the process.

A legislative commission investigating graft claims involving four former ministers has delayed a vote about whether to send them to the Supreme Council until Jan. 5, 2015.

Former Interior Minister Muammer Güler has admitted that he gave a reference about Iranian origin businessman Reza Zarrab, the key suspect of the December 2013 corruption probe, but has denied allegations that he accepted bribes from him.

The latest testimonies from former ministers at a parliamentary commission on corruption have revealed that the implicated ministers have different positions toward wiretap recordings that were presented during a graft probe case that was launched in December 2013.

The suspects in Turkey’s recently dropped corruption probe, including the son of a former minister and Iranian-Azeri businessman, have been summoned to testify as witnesses by the parliamentary commission tasked with investigating the graft claims against four former Cabinet members.