Erdoğan discusses wiretapping, Islamic State threat with Obama

The presidents of NATO allies Turkey and the United States have agreed on a joint roadmap concerning “the parallel structure” which is subject to a widening inquiry into the alleged wiretapping of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, while discussing the threat posed by ISIL militants during NATO talks in Wales.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, speaking with a group of journalists on board the new presidential plane, registered as TR-TUR, during his return from the NATO summit, gave insight into the Sept. 5 meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama.

Erdoğan, meanwhile, also explained that he brought up allegations that Germany had been eavesdropping on Turkey for years during a bilateral meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel.

“I also discussed the issue regarding ‘the parallel state’ structure in Turkey with Mr. President. We reminded him of the facts that particularly our intelligence organizations should be in closer contact on this issue and the need to focus on this structure which threatens our national security. Through efforts by our intelligence organizations and also by our foreign ministries, we will be following this process.

And I wish that developments in Turkey and there [in U.S.] may lead to the yielding of very different results,” Erdoğan said when asked about Obama’s response to his demand for the “deportation” of Pennsylvania-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen.

Gülen and his followers have been accused of forming a “state within the state,” or “the parallel state,” mainly in the judiciary and the police. A gradually widening inquiry is underway into coup and spying allegations against the Gülen movement.

“At the moment, their approach is in the direction of...