The European Union has strongly condemned the raids, which Erdoğan defended as a necessary response to "dirty operations" against the Turkish government.
But on Monday Mr Erdogan responded: "What do you [Europe] know about these operations to feel yourself competent to make such comments?" "We have no concern about what the EU might say, whether the EU accepts us as members or not". He added that the raids had been a necessary response to "dirty operations" to subvert the Turkish state.
Lebanon's daily Al Akhbar reported that Al Sherif wasn't simply a senior official in the dissolved former ruling National Democratic Party, but headed its "dirty operations," the last of which was the "Camel Battle" in Tahrir Square.
After being careful to distance the Italian squadra on the team from the "dirty" Kazakh operation, Nibali has said: "The problems in this team are also in many others.
He sought the advice of a "security bloke" who "does work for the government", and claims that this and a similar post were the apparent products of some kind of dirty tricks operation.
However, Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, described a "dirty, immoral operation," in which he said Palestinian officers doing mundane, postmidnight guard duty were killed while they were preparing a late-night snack.
The former MP George Galloway has issued a court apology and agreed to pay damages to his former assistant Aisha Ali-Khan over claims that she helped her former police officer husband run a dirty tricks operation against him and his Respect party.
"I spent a whole week going through it, and I couldn't find it". He sought the advice of a "security bloke" who "does work for the government", and claims that this and a similar post were the apparent products of some kind of dirty tricks operation.
Mr Galloway said: "Baghdad is the forgery capital of the world, and this settlement demonstrates that there was a dirty tricks operation mounted against me and other prominent opponents of the war in the aftermath of the fall of the old regime... irrefutable evidence of a conspiracy, committed against a British MP.
Mr. Smith said he sat across the table from Patrick Gray, listening in shock to details about Donald Segretti, who helped run the Nixon campaign's "dirty tricks" operation, and John Mitchell, who had stepped down as attorney general to run Nixon's re-election campaign.
