ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday followers of an Islamic cleric with whom he's locked in a power struggle might leak a video about him and his family to smear him before an August presidential election.
The cleric, Fethullah Gulen, is a former ally, now based in Pennsylvania, who Erdogan accuses of trying to unseat him. He says Gulen is behind a stream of "fabricated" voice recordings that purport to reveal corruption in the prime minister's inner circle.
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