Turkey’s Interior Ministry announced Dec. 26 a terror-related probe of Istanbul city employees.
The probe involves 557 employees of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, which governs the city of Istanbul. The employees are accused of connections to designated terrorist groups in Turkey. The list includes the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which fights for greater rights for Turkey’s Kurdish minority, and the far-left Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C), according to a ministry statement.