Scandal-hit Turkey PM presses police purge
Turkish prosecutors have begun charging some of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's closest allies in a huge graft scandal he has responded to with a spectacular purge of the police.
Erdogan has said he is battling "a state within a state" and described the corruption probe, which comes ahead of crucial March polls, as a smear operation.
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