On December 17th, Turkish police detained around 50 individuals accused of corruption and bribery. The scandal , which implicated Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was that the arrested ranged from sons of government ministers to political allies in Turkey's financial sector. Thus began a new chapter in Mr Erdoğan’s battle between his movement and the Turkish "deep state" – pockets of the administration loyal to their own interests and, notably, not Mr Erdoğan’s.

Last modified

• 04/23/2018

Creator

• Alexi Stocker
• Tom Cui
• Monika Hur

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.21985/N26M5G

Keyword

• volume 1

Date created

• 2017-06-01

Resource type

• Article

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• In Copyright