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Turkey Sees Foes at Work in Gold Mines, Cafes and ‘Smurf Village’
LONDON — Akin Ipek, one of Turkey’s richest men, was staying in the Park Tower Hotel in London when the police raided his television network in Istanbul.
The raid was national news, so Mr. Ipek opened his laptop and watched an unnerving spectacle: an attack on his multibillion-dollar empire, in real time.
It was an oddly cinematic showdown.
Through a combination of shouting and persuasion, the network’s news editor convinced the officers that they should leave, then locked himself in the basement…