ISTANBUL
Details are emerging of a major police operation in Istanbul and other Turkish cities where officers are being sought in connection with alleged illegal wiretapping.
Thirty-three police officials were being sought in the early hours of Monday on charges including wiretapping, espionage and forgery. The anti-graft operation took place across several police departments in Istanbul and in 16 Turkish cities.
The operations follow a December 2013 probe which led to the arrest of several high-profile figures, including the sons of three former government ministers and leading business people.
All those detained in December were later released pending trial.
The Turkish government has denounced the December probes as a "dirty plot" constructed by a "parallel state," a group of bureaucrats embedded in the country's institutions, including the judiciary and the police.
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