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Turkish government probes city of Istanbul employees for alleged terror links

The municipal government of Turkey’s largest city is run by the Republican People’s Party, which stands in opposition to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu (6th-L) attends a ceremony at Taksim Square to mark the National Sovereignty and Children’s Day holiday on the first day of a four-day lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, Istanbul, Turkey, April 23, 2020.

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.

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