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“It emerged that the telephone communications some officers made with ISIL militants were wiretapped,” the Cumhuriyet daily said, describing the officers' contact with ISIL members as scandalous.
The wiretapping reportedly took place last year as part of an investigation conducted by the Ankara Chief Prosecutor's Office.
The investigation file was handed over on March 15 this year to the military prosecutor's office of the Gaziantep 5th Armored Brigade Command as the prosecutor's office deemed the issue outside of its jurisdiction, according to the report.
An investigation was launched by public prosecutor Derda Gökmen into the 27 suspects, some of whom are in Syria, the report said.
According to the daily's report, the big scandal came out into the open after the investigation was opened by the Ankara Chief Prosecutor's Office upon the reports of relatives of six Turkish citizens stating that they were missing and believing them to have joined the ranks of ISIL.
originally posted by: Swills
www.todayszaman.com...
“It emerged that the telephone communications some officers made with ISIL militants were wiretapped,” the Cumhuriyet daily said, describing the officers' contact with ISIL members as scandalous.
The wiretapping reportedly took place last year as part of an investigation conducted by the Ankara Chief Prosecutor's Office.
The investigation file was handed over on March 15 this year to the military prosecutor's office of the Gaziantep 5th Armored Brigade Command as the prosecutor's office deemed the issue outside of its jurisdiction, according to the report.
An investigation was launched by public prosecutor Derda Gökmen into the 27 suspects, some of whom are in Syria, the report said.
According to the daily's report, the big scandal came out into the open after the investigation was opened by the Ankara Chief Prosecutor's Office upon the reports of relatives of six Turkish citizens stating that they were missing and believing them to have joined the ranks of ISIL.
This is pretty big! Turkish officers in contact with IS and setting up meetings for Turks who want to join their ranks! From buying IS's oil to Turkish officers sending recruits to them, what's next?! Turkey is a cesspool of terrorism and one of our biggest allies in the Middle East! These Middle Eastern conflicts just continue to get more ridiculous as time goes on. What the hell are we doing over there?
originally posted by: Sublimecraft
Unless of course, freedom means oil and democracy means gas, then of course it is about freedom and democracy.
That's why Halliburton got a military escort into Iraq in 03.
originally posted by: HolgerTheDane2
To be honest, the supposed connection hinted at is not as worrying as the fact that Turkey wants to join the EU.
Since Turkey is actively working against democracy, that would be bad.
Since Turkey seems to be working toward being an Islamic state, that would be bad.
Since EU has this Schengen agreement with Open Borders, that would be extra bad.
The investigation file was handed over on March 15 this year to the military prosecutor's office of the Gaziantep 5th Armored Brigade Command as the prosecutor's office deemed the issue outside of its jurisdiction, according to the report.
Every single western nation with their handin the ME cookie jar knows full well and are complicit in just about everything Turkey is doing. To call Turkey the fall guy would be an understatement.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ban of YouTube occurred after a conversation was leaked between Head of Turkish Intelligence Hakan Fidan and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu that he wanted removed from the video-sharing website.
The leaked call details Erdogan's thoughts that an attack on Syria "must be seen as an opportunity for us [Turkey]".
Today's Zaman is an English-language daily based in Turkey. Established on January 16, 2007, as the English-language edition of the Turkish daily Zaman, Today's Zaman includes domestic and international coverage, and regularly publishes topical supplements. Its contributors include cartoonist Cem Kızıltuğ.
Today's Zaman, along with its parent Turkish-language paper Zaman, is operated by followers of the religious Gülen movement,[1][2] but Fethullah Gülen himself is not the owner.[3]This contrasts with its English-language competitors, the center-left Hürriyet Daily News and the Daily Sabah, which is aligned politically with the Justice and Development Party of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Muhammed Fethullah Gülen (born 27 April 1941) is a Turkish preacher,[5] former imam,[5][6] and writer.[7] He is the founder of the Gülen movement (known as Hizmet meaning service in Turkish). He currently lives in self-imposed exile in the United States, residing in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania.[8][9][10]
The Gülen movement, also known as Hizmet or Jamaat, has millions of followers in Turkey, as well as many more abroad. Beyond the schools established by Gülen's followers, it is believed that many Gülenists hold positions of power in Turkey's police forces and judiciary.[59][60] Turkish and foreign analysts believe Gülen also has sympathizers in the Turkish parliament and that his movement controls the widely-read Islamic conservative Zaman newspaper, the private Bank Asya bank, the Samanyolu TV television station, and many other media and business organizations, including the Turkish Confederation of Businessmen and Industrialists (TUSKON).[61] In March 2011, the Turkish government arrested the investigative journalist Ahmet Şık and seized and banned his book The Imam's Army, the culmination of Şık's investigation into Gülen and the Gülen movement.[62]
In 2005, a man affiliated with the Gülen movement approached then-U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Eric S. Edelman during a party in Istanbul and handed him an envelope containing a document supposedly detailing plans for an imminent coup against the government by the Turkish military. However, the documents were soon found to be forgeries.[60] Gülen affiliates claim the movement is "civic" in nature and that it does not have political aspirations.[61]