Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey

A broad police operation into the so-called ?parallel structure,? members of the Gülen movement that allegedly infiltrated the judiciary and security forces, was launched launched Jan. 20 as part of claims that they wiretapped and spied on figures including then-PM Recep Tayyip Erdo?an.

A new and broad police operation into the so-called ?parallel structure,? members of the Gülen movement that had allegedly infiltrated the judiciary and security forces, was launched on Jan. 20.

Turkey?s top court has ruled that the rights of all 46 people convicted in a controversial so-called military espionage case and charged with membership of an illegal organization were violated.

Members of the Council of Ministers and top military officials will get new anti-wiretapping phones before the end of the year, Industry Minister Fikri Işık said, while arguing that the "parallel structure" - a phrase used to describe the Gülenist movement - was deeply rooted in the strategic boards of the country's top science body.

A Turkish university is planning to develop a new lie detector unique to the Turkish people, on the grounds that "some statements which are regarded as a lie in western countries are not a lie for Turks."

An Ankara court ordered on Dec. 1 the capture of five suspects in an investigation into the illegal wiretapping of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in which 13 were charged with “political espionage.”

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office had drafted an indictment to the Ankara 7th Heavy Penal Court, Anadolu Agency reported on Nov. 18.

A Manisa court has rejected an indictment prepared as a part of an investigation into the death of 301 miners who were killed in Turkey’s deadliest industrial accident in May, finding it “insufficient.”

New footage has been revealed as a part of the investigation into a missing security camera recording belonging to a hotel in the case into the murder of Gezi protester Ali Ä°smail Korkmaz.

In the footage, police officer Hüseyin Engin, who is being tried in the case without arrest, is seen entering the hotel and ordering the person in charge to shut down its security cameras.

Police officers, including chiefs from the anti-terror department that have been detained as part of a probe into the parallel state, are set to be questioned on accusations that they wiretapped Turkey’s intelligence chief, according to prosecutors.

A heavy penal court in the Aegean city of Ä°zmir has ruled for release of all 10 detainees in a military espionage case in which 357 suspects are charged with espionage.