Gülenist police officers reserve voice recordings for blackmail
by Daily Sabah
ISTANBULOct 23, 2014 - 12:00 am GMT+3
by Daily Sabah
Oct 23, 2014 12:00 am
It has recently been revealed that the police officers in Adana province who are allegedly linked with Gülen movement wiretapped and saved the voice recordings of 164 people's private conversations for blackmail.
The findings reveal that Gülenist infiltrators wiretapped private conversations of 164 people which do not constitute crime and backed up the recordings for their own purposes via a pirate programme named TİBNOT. The recordings which were secretly kept by the officers in question were purported to have been annihilated in a fabricated document.
The officials in counter-terrosrism unit of Adana Police Department stated that the conversations that were wiretapped and later archived by the infiltrators did not include information that could constitute crime however the recordings could be used for blackmail.
The members of the Gülen movement are notorious for being engaged in illegally wiretapping people's phone conversations as well as encrypted phones. According to reports, a total of 304 separate wiretapping orders were issued for 76 encrypted phones, but more encrypted phones that might have been wiretapped may be found as the investigation continues.
Fethullah Gülen, who resides in the U.S. in self-imposed exile, leads the Gülen Movement, which has charter schools and organizations in hundreds of countries around the world. The movement is currently accused of attempting to infiltrate Turkish state institutions including the police and judiciary as well as unlawfully wiretapping thousands of journalists, politicians, top secret state meetings and encrypted phones belonging to government officials.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and Erdoğan have made it clear that infiltrators will be held accountable for their betrayal and attempts to take over the state through a coup. Currently, dozens of Gülenist agents within the police force have been arrested while more arrests are expected as police interrogate several other suspects and conduct an investigation into numerous institutions including the police department and TİB.
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