ISTANBUL
As part of the 'parallel state' operations, eight of the 22 police personnel who were detained Thursday have been arrested, Istanbul's chief public prosecutor's office said early Friday.
The terrorist and organized crimes department of Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s office interrogated 22 suspects who were detained on Thursday and 14 of them were sent to court.
The total number of arrests in the investigation into espionage and alleged wiretapping across several police departments in Turkey rose to 104 on Wednesday.
The Istanbul-based operation, which began early Tuesday, saw detentions taking place in several Turkish cities.
These latest detentions follow two high-profile Istanbul-based anti-graft operations launched in December last year, which led to the arrest of high-profile figures including the sons of the three government ministers as well as several entrepreneurs.
All those detained in the probe were later released pending trial.
The Turkish government has denounced the December probes as a "dirty plot" constructed by a "parallel structure" group of bureaucrats embedded within the country's key institutions, including the judiciary and police.
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