Turkish police detained at least eight people on Tuesday from different addresses in the western province of Izmir for purportedly being linked with an illegal formation.
As part of an investigation against the parallel structure, an illegal formation led by the US-based so called cleric Fethullah Gülen, raids were launched by the Public Prosecutors office in İzmir. Police units from the Combating Financial Crime Branch conducted search operation on 29 educational institutions across the province.
All suspects were accused of willingly or knowingly helping a terror organization, forging and destroying official documents.
The searching operations are still going on.
The "parallel state" is a purported group of Turkish bureaucrats and senior officials embedded in the country's institutions, including the judiciary and the police, which allegedly want to undermine the current Turkish government.
Earlier, a Turkish court issued an arrest warrant for Fethullah Gülen, the U.S-based leader of the parallel state, for building a terrorist organization and orchestrating a plot to overthrow the elected authority.
