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Turkey sees mass firing of police in graft scandal

Jan 07, 2014, 10:38 AM EST
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses journalists during a press conference at the Government Banquet Hall in Helsinki on November 6, 2013.
AFP PHOTO / LEHTIKUVA / JUSSI NUKARI

In the latest move in an ongoing power struggle with U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, Turkish P.M. Recep Tayyip Erdogan reassigned or fired some 350 police officers, including members of units dealing with high-profile crimes. Accusations and counter-accusations of corruption have formed the axis of the fight between Tayyip Erdogan and Gulen, whom the P.M. accuses of planning to usurp power.

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