High officers in Ankara are beneath investigation after claims they conspired towards ex-ministers, in response to native media
Senior officers tasked with preventing organized crime in Ankara, Türkiye are beneath investigation for an alleged conspiracy concentrating on the federal government, Hurriyet has claimed.
The high-profile case, which was detailed by the newspaper on Wednesday, is centered on a person named Serdar Sertcelik. He purportedly was the right-hand man of the chief of Ayhan Bora Kaplan, an alleged felony group that was busted by legislation enforcement final yr.
In response to Turkish media, investigators granted Sertcelik the standing of secret witness in its case towards the group. Just lately, nonetheless, he escaped custody and fled the nation.
He then made extraordinary claims, stating that the police management pressured him into naming senior members of the ruling AK Get together, together with former cupboard members and folks at present serving in excessive positions of energy, as linked to crimes. The purported ‘Operation Clear Palms’ amounted to an anti-government conspiracy, Sertcelik declared.
Final week, the Turkish Inside Ministry introduced the suspension of a deputy chief of the Ankara province police who supervised the battle towards organized crime, the director of the related department within the drive, and considered one of his deputies. The assertion cited “claims on social media” as warranting the transfer.
On Wednesday night time, their properties and the house of the deputy police chief’s chauffeur had been searched, in response to the media. The raids had been performed by the counterterrorism department of the Ankara police, Hurriyet stated. The officers had been stated to be investigated for a spread of crimes, together with conspiracy towards the constitutional order of Türkiye.
Inside Minister Ali Yerlikaya issued a press release on Wednesday apparently referring to the searches. He vowed that anybody utilizing “FETO ways” – a reference to the group of US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen – can be held accountable. The Turkish authorities beneath President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Gulen for years of plotting methods to undermine it, together with an tried army coup in 2016.
”If there’s a construction inside any establishment concentrating on our president, our authorities and our flesh pressers, we’ll go to the tip, determine these buildings and convey them to justice,” the inside minister stated on X (previously Twitter).
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Erdogan reportedly held a secret assembly in a single day with senior safety and justice officers. In the meantime, nationalist politician and serving MP Devlet Bahceli demanded a crackdown on the alleged conspiracy, saying: “If we bow to those that are planning a repeat of the coup try with 17-25 police and judiciary companions, we will probably be devastated.”
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