Telephone tapping

An Ankara court ordered on Dec. 1 the capture of five suspects in an investigation into the illegal wiretapping of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in which 13 were charged with “political espionage.”

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office had drafted an indictment to the Ankara 7th Heavy Penal Court, Anadolu Agency reported on Nov. 18.

The Turkish government is set to increase the police’s authority by enlarging their rights on detention, use of weapons and wiretapping, along with 18 other topics, in a draft domestic order omnibus code that has been taken to Parliament.

A top prosecutor’s office in the Turkish capital Ankara has finally completed an investigation into the illegal wiretapping of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, charging 13 suspects with “political espionage.”

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has drafted the indictment in the investigation, the semi-official Anadolu Agency reported on Nov. 18

Seventeen police officers were detained on Nov. 12 as a part of a fresh wave of operations conducted in seven provinces across Turkey.

Teams from the organized crime branch launched the operations on the order of the Istanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office.

Some 18 police officers, who were detained on Oct. 28 in an investigation into the illegal wiretapping of 123 people in the Mediterranean Turkish province of Mersin, were released on the condition of legal control on Oct. 31.

At least 25 officers have been detained in raids conducted as part of an investigation led by the İzmir Prosecutor’s Office over wiretapping claims.

Four soccer players from a Super League team colluded with others to affect the course of games so they could win thousands of euros from betting, according to a preliminary judicial investigation.

On the eve of the presidential elections, for the last three weeks, Turkey has been talking about an operation that has seen police officers place other police officers into custody.

Before talking about the new regulations about Turkey’s Telecommunication Authority (TİB), which are on the government’s agenda, let me mention different cases of abuses that we have witnessed as a society since the TİB was established in 2005.

The suspects detained on charges of “illegal wiretapping, spying and fraud” in an operation on July 22 had been monitoring the private lives of the people they allegedly wiretapped illegally, according to authorities.