Victims of wiretapping scandal demand justice

The victims of the spying and wiretapping created by Gülenist police officers embedded in the police department gave a statement to the prosecutor demanding the proper punishment be given to those responsible.

"This structure must end as soon as possible," journalist Fatih Altayli said of the victims of the illegal phone-taps during a three-year investigation on the fictitious Selam-Tevhid organization.

Altayli was among the victims, thousands of people that were being spied on illegally for years by means of the perpetrators'' use of fake documents.

The victims gave statements to the Istanbul Chief Prosecutor''s Office, which is carrying out the investigation to prosecute the responsible.

The presence of many lawyers'' names in the illegal wiretapped list is remarkable.

Hasan Erdem, a judge of the Istanbul Regional Administrative Court since 1990, is one of the victims.

Hasan who was listened with the code name of ''Hasan'' and ''Hasan Yalcin'' accused that he has been wire-tapped for running some cases related to Turkish media mogul Aydin Dogan''s Dogan Holding Group. '' My ID, address, declaration of property and bank accounts are all available as open to the related institutes. I could not make sense of the wiretapping of my phone calls. I think the main reason of wiretapping is some critical cases that I have run. I can say those cases are related to Dogan Holding Group,'' Judge Erdem said.

Erdem recalled the cases related to the Dogan Group were opened in March 2009 and the first decision to listen to his phone conversations was made in April 2009.

''I am complaining against the person who wiretapped me. I am applying to open an administrative case against them,'' he added.

The Turkish Daily Milliyet''s Editor in Chief, Fikret Bila, is another complainer who said in a statement to the judge that due to his occupation of being a journalist he made so many interviews with many Turkish statesmen.

''I want to sue against the officials who listened to me illegally with false information and documents,'' Bila said.

A Historian-author, Kadir Misrioglu, who was wiretapped for being accuses of a link with the Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front, or IBDA-C, organization, said in his judiciary statement, ''I exposed the Fethullah Gülen movement to heavy criticism both from political and religious points through my books, essays, conferences and internet environments since 1995. The cause of wiretapping my phone calls (that showed in police documents) is bogus, and I know the main causes are those I explained now. ''

Fatih Altayli, a Journalist from the Turkish Daily Haber Turk, said he wanted the termination of the structure as soon as possible.

''I wrote a story about a secret meeting between the Ergenekon case prosecutor, Zekeriya Oz, and the FBI and CIA representatives.'' Altayli added, ''I think wiretapping my phone is connected to this event''

Former Minister of Family and Social Policies and Gaziantep Mayor Fatma Sahin also filed a criminal complaint against the parallel organization, who listened to the encrypted phone.

''If the needed lessons are not given today, the names will change tomorrow and will continue in this way. I am a plaintiff in both worlds,'' she said.

According to police reports, during a three-year investigation 2,280 people were indirectly wire-tapped. The officers, who were pretending to listen to conversations of alleged members of Selam-Tevhid, were actually aiming to spy.

On December 17, 2013, the police detained senior bureaucrats, businessmen and sons of three cabinet ministers as part of an investigation into tender fraud and bribery to target the authority of the Turkish PM.

The Turkish government has denounced the December probes as a "dirty plot" constructed by a "parallel structure" group of bureaucrats embedded within the country's key institutions, including the judiciary and police.