Graft Inquiry Intensifies Turkish Political Rivalry
Kursat Bayhan/Zaman Daily, via Reuters
By TIM ARANGO and SEBNEM ARSU
Published: December 17, 2013
ISTANBUL — At dawn on Tuesday the police raided the offices of several businessmen with close ties to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as part of a wide-ranging corruption investigation, immediately raising the stakes of an unfolding political contest of wills here between two men who have long held sway over the country’s Muslim masses: an ailing and aging Turkish preacher who lives on a sprawling compound in the Poconos, and Mr. Erdogan.
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