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Human Rights

Turkey Purges Officials in Bid to Quash Corruption Probes

contributors 01/19/2014

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(By AFP)

Turkey widens purge after graft probe (via AFP)

The Turkish government’s mass purge of police and prosecutors has extended to the banking and telecoms sectors as well as state television, the latest fallout from a wide-ranging corruption scandal plaguing the country’s leaders. Local media reported…

 

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Filed Under: Human Rights, political Islam, Turkey

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