A police wire-tap that enmeshed some of Turkey's most powerful in 2012 led to cumulative sentences totalling more than 42 years being handed down to 93 officials, players and agents for match-fixing, bribery, extortion and membership of a crime syndicate.

The involuntary poor lived, day in and day out, with circumstnaces that might make a zealous monk green with envy: ready-made rags, stench, starvation, fiscal penury, and unbounded physical and social suffering. Yet this population has received less attention in religious history and scholarship than those who chose their asceses, and ancient sermons about the poor have often been neglected in favor of more theological themes.

He was a good Citizen, of an honest-gentle nature, as are commonly fat and burly men; for so was he: But to speake truely of him, full of ambitious vanitie and remisse nicenesse [translating mollesse].

But thinke with thy ſelfe, will theſe diſtinctions, prætences & qualifications ſatisfie my conſcience hereafter in the day of trial?