Erdogan takes battle with enemies beyond Turkish frontiers


  • World
  • Thursday, 03 Apr 2014

ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's battle to root out the "terrorists" he says are embedded in the Turkish state is extending beyond its frontiers to Africa and Asia, further complicating foreign policy already hit by tensions with the Arab world and Western allies.

Last month, parents of the Yavuz Selim school in Kanifing, Gambia, received a letter announcing its immediate closure. A source at the school, run by the Hizmet organisation of Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, said the decision had been conveyed to the principal in a one sentence missive.

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