ANKARA - Turkish MPs said yesterday that a parliamentary report on state links with right-wing gangsters did not go far enough and they called for further investigations to expose the main offenders.
"The report is full of holes, it does not produce a result and is lacking in documentation and information," a leftist MP, Mr Fikri Saglar, told parliament during a debate on the "Susurluk report", prepared by an MPs' commission after a crash in which a top policeman and a fugitive gangster died in the same car.
The report issued in April accused two MPs from the True Path Party of the Foreign Minister, Ms Tansu Ciller, the former interior minister, Mr Mehmet Agar, and Mr Sedat Bucak of deep involvement in underworld dealings.
It painted a bleak picture of right-wing gangsters using state privileges to kill, trade guns and traffic drugs. Mr Bucak himself was injured in the road accident last November.