PRINCETON – The dramatic battle between Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its erstwhile ally, the “Hizmet” religious movement led by the self-exiled cleric Fethullah Gülen, has begun to expose the massive rule-of-law violations that these two groups employed to consolidate their power. Prosecutors widely thought to be Gülen sympathizers have launched a wide-ranging corruption probe that has so far ensnared four ministers and reaches all the way to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son.
普林斯顿—土耳其执政党正义和发展党（AKP）与其昔日盟友、自愿流亡的传教士法土拉·葛兰（Fethullah Gülen）领导的“服务”（Hizmet）宗教运动之间的恶斗已开始暴露出大量违反被双方用来巩固权力的法治精神的行动。被广泛视为葛兰同情者的检察部门发动了一场波及面极大的反腐调查，到目前为止已有四名部长被捕，并剑指总理埃尔多安之子。