Prosecutor charges suspects in wiretapping case with 'attempting to annul gov't'

Some 28 people working at Turkey?s top science body and top telecommunications authority illegally eavesdropped encrypted phones of President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu and a number of other officials without court order, the Ankara Chief Prosecutor?s Office has stated in an indictment. It also claimed that the group transferred these voice recordings to the archives of the so-called
?Pro-Fetullah Terror Organization [Fetullahç? Terör Örgütü]/Parallel State Structure.? 

One recording purportedly featuring a conversation between then-Prime Minister Erdo?an and his son Bilal is ?a montage created from more than one recording,? stated the same indictment, which was accepted by the Ankara 2nd Heavy Penal Court on June 1.

The indictment demanded the trial of the 28 suspects on charges of ?attempting to annul the government of the Republic of Turkey; or attempting to partially or entirely block the government from performing its duties.? 

Six suspects who worked at the Informatics and Information Security Research Center (B?LGEM) of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜB?TAK) were in charge of the design of software and hardware of the ?MILCEP-K2 Crypto Mobile Phone,? said the indictment.

Some 161 MILCEP-K2 model phones were distributed to top civilian and military officials including the president, the parliament speaker, the prime minister, ministers, the president of the Constitutional Court, the chief of General Staff, the undersecretary of the Prime Ministry, the undersecretary of the National Intelligence Organization (M?T), advisers of the prime minister, and the undersecretary of the Foreign Ministry, as well as to top judicial and security officials.

The phones...