‘Police in Turkey have spied on thousands of people including Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as well as cabinet ministers, reports say.

Pro-government newspapers Yenisafak and Star reported on Monday that associates of US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen in the police and the judiciary have eavesdropped on the phone calls of Erdogan, politicians and businessmen for three year.

New prosecutors appointed after a mass purge of the police and prosecution service in the wake of a corruption probe launched last December have found the classified documents, the reports said.’

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