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Sources of wiretapping leaks identified: Turkish deputy PM
15:17 ¢ 16.03.14
Those who leaked the alleged wiretapped phone calls of government,
business and media figures have been identified, Deputy Prime Minister
BeÅ?ir Atalay said on March 15, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.
Scores of wiretaps have been leaked online since the start of the Dec.
17 graft investigation and listened to by millions of people. Prime
Minister Recep ErdoÄ?an had confirmed the authenticity of some of the
recordings, while rejecting the others as `montages.'
The government had repeatedly accused the movement of U.S.-based
Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen of orchestrating the probes and
launched a massive struggle to purge its sympathizers from the civil
service, which is dubbed as `the parallel state.'
`Wiretapping, blackmailing... This is a center of fear... a dark
center... This is not only the parallel state. In Turkey and abroad,
they are unified as a front,' Atalay said during an interview on Kanal
7 television. Claiming that over 1 million wiretappings were recorded
by this `center' in 2012-2013, Atalay said: `Some of their members
went abroad. Some of them are still here. We keep working. Almost all
of them are identified.'
Atalay also described the Ergenekon trial as a `disgrace.' While
stressing that the recent releases did not mean acquittals, `The case
had reached a point where it was impossible to know the guilty from
the innocent,' he said.
Prime Minister ErdoÄ?an had described the Gülen Movement at an election
rally on March 15 as `the new Ergenekon in Pennsylvania.'
Armenian News - Tert.am
From: Baghdasarian
15:17 ¢ 16.03.14
Those who leaked the alleged wiretapped phone calls of government,
business and media figures have been identified, Deputy Prime Minister
BeÅ?ir Atalay said on March 15, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.
Scores of wiretaps have been leaked online since the start of the Dec.
17 graft investigation and listened to by millions of people. Prime
Minister Recep ErdoÄ?an had confirmed the authenticity of some of the
recordings, while rejecting the others as `montages.'
The government had repeatedly accused the movement of U.S.-based
Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen of orchestrating the probes and
launched a massive struggle to purge its sympathizers from the civil
service, which is dubbed as `the parallel state.'
`Wiretapping, blackmailing... This is a center of fear... a dark
center... This is not only the parallel state. In Turkey and abroad,
they are unified as a front,' Atalay said during an interview on Kanal
7 television. Claiming that over 1 million wiretappings were recorded
by this `center' in 2012-2013, Atalay said: `Some of their members
went abroad. Some of them are still here. We keep working. Almost all
of them are identified.'
Atalay also described the Ergenekon trial as a `disgrace.' While
stressing that the recent releases did not mean acquittals, `The case
had reached a point where it was impossible to know the guilty from
the innocent,' he said.
Prime Minister ErdoÄ?an had described the Gülen Movement at an election
rally on March 15 as `the new Ergenekon in Pennsylvania.'
Armenian News - Tert.am
From: Baghdasarian