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‘Neo-nationalist group wiretapped PM’s house’
Titled “İçimizdeki Gladio ile Yüzleşme” (Confronting the Gladio Inside Us), Selvi’s book seeks to shed light on a number of murky incidents in Turkey’s history. The VKGB is suspected of close ties with Ergenekon, a clandestine criminal organization accused of working to overthrow the government.
Several members of the group are currently standing trial on charges of knowingly aiding and abetting Ergenekon. In October of last year, an Ankara court ruled to merge the trial with that of Ergenekon.
In his book, Selvi recounts dialogue between two VKGB members, Zeki Balaban and Halit Bozdağ. In the conversation, Bozdağ warns Balaban about wiretapping the prime minister’s house. The dialogue follows:
Bozdağ: Quit wiretapping.
Balaban: OK.
Bozdağ: You even wiretapped his [prime minister’s] bedroom. How on earth did you do this?
Balaban: Hey, who wiretapped his bedroom?
Bozdağ: Your men.
Balaban: My men did not enter his house. That’s probably the work of your men.
Bozdağ: They did not place a bug in his house. They wiretapped his phone.
Two journalists were detained in November on charges of wiretapping Prime Minister Erdoğan. Aydınlık Editor-in-Chief Deniz Yıldırım and Ulusal TV editor Ufuk Akaya are also accused of membership in Ergenekon.
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