The parallel structure is a term invented by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to refer to adherents of the Hizmet movement, inspired by Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who allegedly operate from within the police and the judiciary.
Sefin Dizayee, a spokesperson for the government of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, told Cihan news agency that there is no such in base in the region, stressing that not even the KRG government is wiretapped. The spokesperson added the KRG has no information about the alleged wiretapping base in the region.