11 police officers taken off duty for alleged wiretapping

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00:00, 11/09/2014, ThursdayU: Update: 13:01, 11/09/2014, Thursday
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11 police officers taken off duty for alleged wiretapping
11 police officers taken off duty for alleged wire

11 Turkish police officers, including three commissioners, were discharged by the disciplinary board of the Interior Ministry

The High Disciplinary Board of the Ministry of the Interior has discharged 11 police officers including three commissioners, on charges of illegal eavesdropping and archiving information by violating personal privacy.

The board relieved police chiefs Omer Kose, Ozgur Acikgoz and Murat Çetiner with nine other police officers on charges of wiretapping.

The police officers were detained and imprisoned on allegations of illegal wiretapping 2280 high-level Turkish politicians, diplomats and intelligence officers including the president, prime minister, some cabinet members and intelligence chief, as part of the investigation into the so-called Slam-Tevhid terror organization.

The ministry inspectors found out the personal information recorded by police officers during the investigation was illegally transferred to and archived in some other computers.

According to the inspector's investigations, the police officers archived personal information related to 355 case documents.

The inspectors determined that the information of the archives, which should be vanished, were used regularly, and thus the state security and personals privacy were violated.

Regarding the illegal wiretapping, an investigation was started against 71 police officers including 10 police chiefs.

Civil investigators sent a document to the Interior Ministry High Disciplinary Board demanding that the officers be discharged.

The board decided to take Police commissioner Omer Kose of duty for the violation of the people and the state by illegally achieving their personal and private information. It was decided that the head commissioner, Muhammed Kaya, and Mehmet Isik would also be decommissioned.

The high board also determined to take 16 other police officers off duty, including Police chief Mutlu Ekizoglu, Gokhan Oral, Kazim Aksoy, Hayati Basdag and Yurt Atayun, but they were released due to their time served in pre-trial custody.


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