ISTANBUL - Turkish police raided media outlets close to a U.S.-based Muslim cleric on Dec. 14 and detained 24 people including top executives and ex-police chiefs in operations against what President Tayyip Erdogan calls a terrorist network conspiring to topple him.
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Ekrem Dumanli (C), editor-in-chief of the Zaman newspaper, Turkey's top-selling newspaper, waves to staff members, while being arrested by counter-terror police at the newspaper's headquarters in Istanbul on Dec. 14, 2014.
