Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that wiring telephones of state functionaries and their families was no different from spying. He promised to find people responsible for that, Trend reports.
Commenting on Fethullah Gulen’s Hizmet movement, Erdogan said that a state structure was under influence of it. He blames Gulen of wiring telephones of about 7,000 highest-ranking officials and opposition members during a counter-terrorism operation against Salam in 2011. Erdogan calls Hizmet an anti-state politicized and illegal movement.
Gulen is also the found of the Turkish Writers and Journalists Foundation.
Erdogan said that he may request Gulen’s extradition. Canada and New Zealand have already refused to give Gulen asylum.
