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TURKISH OPPOSITION MP ASKS PM WHO SANCTIONED WIRETAPPING OF ARMENIAN JOURNALIST
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November 13, 2012 | 14:55
Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) MP Atilla Kart
asked PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan as to who had ordered the wiretapping
of Taraf daily's journalists.
He noted that, based on the decisions by two Istanbul courts, Turkey's
National Intelligence Service (MIT) had wiretapped, from 30 October
2008 to 4 November 2009, the conversations of these journalists,
including the daily's Armenian coordinator Markar Esayan, Milliyet
daily of Turkey reports.
Atilla Kurt recalled that the Istanbul Prosecutor's Office has
petitioned to the PM with a request to launch an inquiry against the
MIT agents, and he asked Erdogan: "Were these wiretappings conducted
with the knowledge of the MIT Director? Why are you not conducting
an administrative and a criminal procedure against such actions by
MIT, which violates freedom of the press and the fundamental rights
and liberties?"
To note, when hearing they were wiretapped, Taraf's journalists
had filed lawsuits against MIT and the judges that sanctioned these
wiretappings.
From: A. Papazian
news.am
November 13, 2012 | 14:55
Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) MP Atilla Kart
asked PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan as to who had ordered the wiretapping
of Taraf daily's journalists.
He noted that, based on the decisions by two Istanbul courts, Turkey's
National Intelligence Service (MIT) had wiretapped, from 30 October
2008 to 4 November 2009, the conversations of these journalists,
including the daily's Armenian coordinator Markar Esayan, Milliyet
daily of Turkey reports.
Atilla Kurt recalled that the Istanbul Prosecutor's Office has
petitioned to the PM with a request to launch an inquiry against the
MIT agents, and he asked Erdogan: "Were these wiretappings conducted
with the knowledge of the MIT Director? Why are you not conducting
an administrative and a criminal procedure against such actions by
MIT, which violates freedom of the press and the fundamental rights
and liberties?"
To note, when hearing they were wiretapped, Taraf's journalists
had filed lawsuits against MIT and the judges that sanctioned these
wiretappings.
From: A. Papazian