ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey is launching a criminal investigation into an alleged "parallel state" backed by a U.S.-based cleric and accused by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan of orchestrating a corruption scandal to unseat him, senior Turkish officials said.
A close ally of the cleric accused the government of conducting a campaign of 'incitements and lynchings".
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