By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan brandished what he said was a file of graft allegations against a senior opposition figure on Sunday, raising the stakes in a political battle after a corruption investigation implicated his own government. Mustafa Sarigul, the main opposition's candidate for Istanbul mayor, dismissed the allegations as "dishonourable propaganda" on Twitter. Erdogan appeared on live television, holding up enlarged copies of what he described as a report prepared by Sarigul's own party that he said listed "improprieties" during the candidate's time as mayor of the middle-class borough of Sisli. Hundreds of millions of lira of improprieties were conducted," Erdogan said, referring to what he said were allegations in the report.
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