Ankara News

Turkey orders arrests of cops  in eavesdropping probe,
Turkey lunched  a new operation to arrest top police
officers suspected of involvement in illegal eavesdropping
on senior officials including President Recep Tayyip  Erdogan

The perations targeted 18 senior police figures in Ankara.
including the former head of the national police intelligence.

The swoops were the fifth such in a sequence of coordinated
raids against police since July that have already seen overnight
,before the raids were launched by a mysterious Twitter user
named Fuat Avni whose adinentity remains    unknown.

It was not immediately clear if all those targeted by the
current raids had been arrested but Turkish media said that
the  operation was ongoing.
The probe  is linked to last year's stunning corruption
allegation against Erdogan and his inner circle-
vehemently denied by the president -that were based
on wiretapped telephone conversations.

Turkish prosecutors on Friday dropped a case against more
than 50 people ,including sons of two former ministers,
who had been accused in a corruption probe based on
the allegations