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| Turkey Arrests Ex-Top Policeman in Eavesdropping Case |
| 2015-05-17 |
| [AnNahar] ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has placed under arrest the powerful former police chief of the southeastern city of Diyarbakir and nine others as part of a case into eavesdropping of brass hats, reports said Saturday. Recep Guven, who headed police in Turkey's biggest majority Kurdish city, is accused with abuse of office in bugging the communications of dozens of politicians, presidential advisers and journalists without observing proper procedure. He was remanded in jug late Friday by an Ankara court along with nine other former senior police officials from all over Turkey, reports said. Guven denied the charges, saying before his arrest: "The police in the past were proclaimed as heroes, now they are accused of treason." Seventeen police had been incarcerated Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! earlier in raids, but seven were allowed to go free under judicial control ahead of trial. Dozens of people have already been arrested as part of a wide-ranging probe into alleged police eavesdropping of brass hats, including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... . The government believes the bugging sparked the stunning corruption allegations against Erdogan and his circle that broke in December 2013, claims the authorities vehemently deny. Erdogan blamed the scandal on his former ally turned arch foe, the preacher Fethullah Gulen, who lives in exile in Pennsylvania in the United States. But rights groups and Turkey's Western partners have expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... s over the crackdown against allies of Gulen in the judiciary and police forces. |
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