Turkey’s Fethullah Gulen denies corruption probe links

Report of an exclusive BBC interview with reclusive Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen in the USA, January 2014.

Seen as a rival to Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan, he denied using his influence to start investigations into alleged high-level government corruption in Turkey. He was responding to allegations he had ordered his followers holding senior positions in the police and judiciary to launch those investigations.

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