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Peker was tried in 1997 for the murder of the drug smuggler
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On 17 August 1998, Peker was brought to Turkey in his own free will and surrendered to the authorities. The case against him was opened in
September 1998. He pleaded guilty to the crimes for which he was accused and the court found him guilty of building a
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and guaranteed, in return for an unknown favor, to be only imprisoned for a short period of time. As of 2022, Peker revealed that the favour that secured his release was to turn in a cassette footage of then PM
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who has made various allegations about
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stated in 2008 that Peker was the "son of a friend." so on 5 August 2013, Peker was sentenced to ten years in prison as part of the
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