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Systematic crackdown on pro-Gullen organizations continues in Turkey

Workers of the Zaman newspaper hold placards that read, "free media can not be silenced" and "Zaman won’t be silenced", during a demonstration against controversial raids targeting the Zaman newspaper and television channels linked to US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, on December 19, 2014 in Istanbul. (AFP)

Verenia Keet

Press TV, Istanbul

Over the past two years, Ankara has been systematically cracking down on businesses, media, educational and charity organizations believed to have links with exiled Turkish scholar Fethullah Gulen. Ankara accuses these institutions of running a parallel state and planning to topple the government. But Gulen’s supporters deny any wrongdoing and accuse the government of conducting a witch-hunt. From Istanbul, our correspondent Verenia Keet reports. 


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