{"id":25517,"date":"2010-11-12T16:04:04","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T14:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=25517"},"modified":"2014-01-05T22:06:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T20:06:09","slug":"turkish-police-raids-target-ring-linked-to-military-foreign-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/11\/12\/turkish-police-raids-target-ring-linked-to-military-foreign-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish police raids target ring linked to military, foreign intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA \u2014 Turkey has been struck by another military scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Police have been raiding suspected strongholds of a blackmail ring with links to the Turkish military. Turkish sources said 35 people have been identified, most of them\u00a0<span style=\"color: blue;\">soldiers<\/span> as well as government scientists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have been accused of using classified data to spy on the military and\u00a0<span style=\"color: blue;\">government<\/span>,&#8221; a Turkish source said.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, the military has come under increasing pressure from the\u00a0<span style=\"color: blue;\">government<\/span> of Prime Minister Recep Erdogan.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 25, Turkish police were said to have raided nearly 100 buildings throughout\u00a0<span style=\"color: blue;\">Turkey<\/span>. The detainees, linked to foreign intelligence agencies, were said to have included four members of the state-owned Tubitak, the Turkish acronym of Scientific and Technical Research Council.<\/p>\n<p>The sources said police found classified documents obtained by the blackmail ring, including\u00a0<span style=\"color: blue;\">Army<\/span>, Navy and Air Force reports. They said the suspects were also accused of destroying or forging national security documents.<\/p>\n<p>Police were also allowed to search military facilities. The sources cited a police raid of the Electronic Systems Command, assigned to the General Staff.<\/p>\n<p>None of the suspects has been identified, but the sources said the detainees began as a ring in the Navy that blackmailed senior officers to relay classified data.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 27, the National Security Council, chaired by Erdogan, met the new military command, including Chief of Staff Gen. Isik Kosaner.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/worldtribune\/WTARC\/2010\/me_turkey1116_11_11.asp, November 11, 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA \u2014 Turkey has been struck by another military scandal. Police have been raiding suspected strongholds of a blackmail ring with links to the Turkish military. Turkish sources said 35 people have been identified, most of them\u00a0soldiers as well as government scientists. &#8220;They have been accused of using classified data to spy on the military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":68135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[4048],"class_list":["post-25517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}