Well, was it the US intercepting the official crypto phones?

The Guardian, which I think is the best newspaper of the U.K., printed a series in June 2013 that shook the world. The source of the news stories was Edward Snowden, an American born in 1983. Snowden was working at a sub-contractor of the National Security Agency (NSA), the worldwide electronic intelligence agency of the U.S.

Snowden had escaped to Hong Kong after copying a huge amount of documents from his workplace; meanwhile, he met Glenn Greenwald from The Guardian and his partner Laura Poitras. He handed over the documents to the journalist while disclosing himself in a recorded interview, explaining why he leaked them.

Both the American public and the Western world were shaken as a result of Snowden’s leaks. Information in the leaks revealed the U.S. had tapped the phone of German Prime Minister Angela Merkel and British intelligence had bugged the hotel room and phones of Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek while he attended an international meeting in London.

Because Turkey was rocked by Gezi’s incidents at the time, Snowden and his leaks were not adequately conveyed to the public and the developments afterward were not sufficiently covered in the media as well.

Snowden escaped to Moscow; after living in the airport for 39 days, he was granted the right to asylum in the city, where he still lives. British police raided The Guardian’s headquarters and erased the computer discs to which Snowden’s documents were uploaded.

Meanwhile, Glenn Greenwald, who had written the story of Snowden’s documents for The Guardian and who has Snowden’s special trust, set out to construct his own Internet news portal, “The Intercept,” with an incredibly large capital base provided by eBay Founder Pierre Omidyar...