Policing must not consist of phone tapping only

It was the main headlines on the papers the other day that more than 100 police executives were detained within the context of a “spying investigation” launched in Istanbul.  

It is too early to say, but from the statements of the office of the prosecutor and from claims leaked to the papers, it is understood that the essence of the investigation is certain wiretaps conducted by these police directors.

Well, why were the phones of the police directors intercepted? They were monitored in order to find and collapse an organization called “Tevhid-Selam,” one which was spying for Iran.

Just imagine, there is an organization that is spying for Iran and is claimed to have been able to reach the undersecretary level of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT), to Cabinet ministers, to other high level people and even to the close aides of the prime minister and the only investigation tool against this organization you have in your hand is phone tapping.

There is something wrong with this.    

Either, the “organization” you are referring to is not on the scale you are presenting as if it is, or maybe it does not exist. Or, yes, maybe you are right in your suspicions and there is a giant leakage, a spying network, but you were not able to leak into this organization even though you have known about it for years and are not able to evidence its actions and relationships with methods other than phone taps.   
Anyway, my aim is not writing about this “Tevhid-Selam” organization or the other organization, the “parallel structure.” I want to continue writing about the new legal/administrative regulations that are in the horizon for phone taps. The last...