Posted on 03/16/2019 8:23:00 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
Secret Turkish intelligence documents obtained by Nordic Monitor have revealed the extent of pervasive profiling of unsuspecting citizens in Turkey and how irrelevant, incredibly vague and unspecified information led to the prosecution of tens of thousands of legitimate government critics and opponents.
In a letter sent to the Istanbul 29th High Criminal Court on Sept. 26, 2017, classified as secret by the National Intelligence Organization (MIT), legal counsellor Ümit Ulvi Canik attached the intelligence notes kept by the agency on 31 defendants who were facing trial on charges of alleged terrorism. Canik signed the letter on behalf of intelligence chief Hakan Fidan.
The 10-page classified document was sent to the court after the judges ordered the agency on July 27, 2017 to present documents on defendants who were accused of links to the Gülen movement, a civic group that is highly critical of the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Each page of the report starts with a caveat by MIT which states that the information gathered on the defendants was to be used only for intelligence purposes and could not be used as evidence in a court of law. In the event documentation was needed, MIT advised that relevant organizations and agencies must be contacted to document the information included in the intelligence file. In other words, MIT was suggesting that illegal profiling data can be gathered by other relevant government agencies and dressed up in legal form if authorities want to use it in prosecutions.
Personal data such as national ID numbers and the names of children and relatives found in the documents have been redacted by Nordic Monitor.
The profiling also lays bare how court cases in Turkey have been driven by the intelligence agency, which has no role in judicial matters as part of the executive branch. The MIT legal caveat..
(Excerpt) Read more at nordicmonitor.com ...
The Term Deep Sate, I have read, originated within the context of Turkish government.
“The Term Deep Sate,”
should read:
“The term Deep State,”
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