Istanbul ( CNN ) -- Red banners flapped in the breeze of a packed Istanbul street Wednesday , where demonstrators gathered to listen to opposition members lambast Turkey 's Prime Minister for a second day . Embarrassing audio recordings that sound like Recep Tayyip Erdogan giving his son money laundering tips over the phone have become a social media rage that poured out into the streets this week . The crowd chanted `` corruption everywhere , bribery everywhere '' and held up signs mocking the alleged phone conversations between Erdogan and his son Bilal . `` Daddy , is that you ? '' one read . A day earlier , Erdogan made a full-throated denial . He did not say that the voice heard was not his , but that the recording was `` immoral edited material . '' `` They are listening to the government 's encrypted phones ; that 's how low they have sunk , '' Erdogan said . He denounced the recordings not as an attack on his person , but on the Turkish Republic , and he fingered interest groups that he has long accused of plotting to overthrow his government . Two people were dismissed and five were suspended in the past two days from a key government advisory group because of the scandal , the state-run Anadolu news agency reported . The Minister of Science , Industry and Technology , Fikri Isik , said the former head of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey 's Information Technology department and the head of a leading technology center were dismissed . Five people responsible for encrypted phones for the research council were suspended . Opposition exploits . The recordings were just what his opposition was looking for in a corruption scandal that bogged down the country for months . Kemal Kilicdaroglu , leader of the opposition Republican People 's Party , or CHP , played the recordings at a speech before an assembly of CHP lawmakers . `` Either you take a helicopter and flee abroad , or you resign , '' Kilicdaroglu said in a jab at Erdogan . Most mainstream Turkish television channels interrupted their live broadcast of Kilicdaroglu 's speech when he began playing audio of the alleged conversation between Erdogan and his son . They then resumed the broadcast after the audio recordings stopped playing . The recordings appear to be wiretaps of a series of conversations allegedly between Erdogan and Bilal . They were allegedly made the day after a wide-reaching corruption investigation ensnared the sons of three Cabinet members . Bilal was questioned , but never detained in the investigation . Recordings common . Embarrassing recordings of private phone conversations have been emerging on the Internet on an almost weekly basis in Turkey , ever since police detained the Cabinet minsters ' sons and dozens of other businessmen and officials closely linked to Erdogan 's government on December 17 . The government denounced the investigations , saying they were part of a coup attempt by what Erdogan officials described as a `` parallel state '' established within the police force and the judiciary . Thousands of police officers were removed from their posts after the corruption investigation , which caught Erdogan 's administration by surprise . The top prosecutors who led the investigation have also been stripped of their positions . Meanwhile , the government has passed a highly controversial law that gives it direct control over the judiciary . Is instability the 'new normal ' for Turkey ? Turkey resignations : Corruption or power struggle with Islamic cleric in U.S. ? More arrests as power struggle racks Erdogan government in Turkey .
NEW : Several people responsible for encrypted phones were dismissed or suspended . Recordings allegedly of Erdogan talking to his son about money laundering go viral . Comment: The recordings were allegedly made amid a wide-reaching corruption investigation .