However, Turkey's former Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has used the term "parallel state" (or "parallel structure") to describe followers of Fethullah Gülen who occupy senior bureaucratic and judicial positions, which have been accused of attempting to bring down Erdoğan's government.
然而，土耳其前总理雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安使用“平行国度”（或“平行结构”）这一术语来描述占据高级官僚和司法职位的法图拉·居连的追随者，这些人被指控企图摧毁埃尔多安政府。