Turkish
officers on the Syrian border have communicated with Islamic State
militants in Iraq and Syria, Turkey's Cumhuriyet daily reported,
citing an investigation by the Ankara Chief Prosecutor's office which
allegedly eavesdropped on their phone calls.
The
wiretapping reportedly took place last year as part of an
investigation into six missing Turkish citizens, the Cumhuriyet
reported. The relatives of those missing believed they might have
joined the ranks of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) militants.
An
investigation was launched into as many as 27 suspects, some of them
in Syria, the report revealed.
The Chief
Prosecutor's office reportedly received permission to wiretap the
phones of 19 people who were thought to have put the six missing
persons in touch with Islamic State. The investigation reportedly
revealed that those who wanted to join IS ranks received some form of
“ideological training.”
The file on
the investigation is said to have been handed over to the Military
Prosecutor's office in March, after the Ankara Prosecutor's office
deemed the issue outside of its jurisdiction, according to the
Turkish newspaper.
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