A challenge to Erdogan's rule
Dec 17th 2013, 17:14 by A.Z. | ISTANBUL
IT WAS one of the most audacious challenges ever to the rule of Recep Tayyip Erdogan (pictured), the Turkish prime minister. On December 17th police detained the sons of three of his cabinet ministers, a construction tycoon, and a mayor from his mildly Islamist Justice and Development (AK) party in dawn raids carried out in Istanbul and Ankara as part of a corruption probe.
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