Businessman Ozer Ciller, the husband of Turkish former Prime Minister Tansu Ciller, appears at an Ankara court on fraud charges January 23. Husband Ciller denied falsifying documents given to a parliamentary corruption probe. Ozer Ciller faces up to eight and a half years in jail for allegedly supplying a misleading document to a commission of MPs about a U.S.-based subsidiary of a company owned by the Cillers. The case is one of several leagal threats to the couple that have surfaced since Tansu Ciller fell from power.

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