Turkey Graft Probe Turns War of Attrition as Purge Toll Mounts
By Benjamin Harvey, Selcan Hacaoglu and Onur Ant January 08, 2014
Turkey’s ruling party ordered purges of police chiefs and moved to tighten control of the judiciary, as a top official said there’s no chance of a truce in the struggle with prosecutors leading a corruption probe.
The government will keep firing those leading the investigation and then seek to prosecute them for attempting a coup, Osman Can, a member of the central committee of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party, or Ak Party, said in a Jan. 6 interview in Istanbul.
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