Turkey- Suspects of Erdoan eavesdropping case in court
Date
2/24/2016 9:21:03 AM
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) Eleven suspects have been brought to anAnkaracourt in a case filed to persecute those alleged of eavesdropping on Turkish PresidentRecep Tayyip Erdoanduring his prime ministry accused of “being members of a terrorist organization.”
The 11 appeared at theAnkara2nd Court of Serious Crimes on Feb. 23 on charges of being members of “the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization” an alleged terrorism group Erdoan and his inner circle accuse U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen of leading to topple the Turkish government with its alleged followers inside the country’s police and other state institutions.
Holding Hasan Palaz the former president of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey as guilty in the case filed the indictment also claimed former Turkish National Police (EGM) Intelligence Directorate head Ömer Altparmak; former EGM Intelligence Unit Technical Affairs Bureau head Ali Özdoan; former deputy police chiefs Serhat DemirSedat Zavar and Ahmet Türer; former deputy police commissioner Enes Çici; former police officer lker Usta and Hasan Akn a former official from Turkey’s Embassy in Washington D.C. as among the suspects in the case filed by Erdoan’s lawyers Hüseyin Aydn and Muammer Cemalolu.
The indictment accused Akn of military and political espionage with its indictment stating Erdoan as plaintiff.
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