Suspects of Erdo?an eavesdropping case in court

Eleven suspects have been brought to an Ankara court in a case filed to persecute those alleged of eavesdropping on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an during his prime ministry, accused of "being members of a terrorist organization."

The 11 appeared at the Ankara 2nd Court of Serious Crimes on Feb. 23 on charges of being members of "the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization," an alleged terrorism group Erdo?an and his inner circle accuse U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen of leading to topple the Turkish government with its alleged followers inside the country's police and other state institutions.

Holding Hasan Palaz, the former president of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, as guilty in the case filed, the indictment also claimed former Turkish National Police (EGM) Intelligence Directorate head Ömer Alt?parmak; former EGM Intelligence Unit Technical Affairs Bureau head Ali Özdo?an; former deputy police chiefs Serhat Demir,Sedat Zavar, and Ahmet Türer; former deputy police commissioner Enes Çi?ci; former police officer ?lker Usta, and Hasan Ak?n, a former official from Turkey's Embassy in Washington, D.C., as among the suspects in the case filed by Erdo?an's lawyers, Hüseyin Ayd?n and Muammer Cemalo?lu.

The indictment accused Ak?n of military and political espionage, with its indictment stating Erdo?an as plaintiff.
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