ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said on Wednesday his criticism of a wide-spread corruption investigation was not aimed at the movement of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whose followers are influential in the police and judiciary.
"It is incorrect to associate a meaning to my comments that would create a confrontation with the community," he said, referring to Gulen's Hizmet (Service) movement, whose followers say they number in the millions.
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