Erdogan Retaliates for Graft Probe as Police Arrest Police
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Turkish police arrested dozens of their colleagues in pre-dawn raids as authorities expanded a clampdown on civil servants who were involved in a corruption probe into Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government.
Istanbul’s chief prosecutor Hadi Salihoglu said in a statement that 115 police officers were ordered detained over allegations that include spying. Officers are accused of tapping thousands of phones, including those of Erdogan and his cabinet members. State television network TRT reported that the operation was against the “parallel state,” a term coined by Erdogan to describe alleged followers of U.S.-based imam Fethullah Gulen within the bureaucracy.