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23 Feb 2014

Turkey reveals scale of spying by agency

The Turkish deputy prime minister says the country's spy agency eavesdrops on more than two thousand people. 

Turkey's spy agency eavesdrops on more than two thousand people, mostly foreigners, the deputy prime minister says as parliament debates controversial new espionage powers."As of today, National Intelligence Organisation (MIT) eavesdrops on 2473 people. More than half of them are foreigners," Besir Atalay told reporters in Ankara.

He said the espionage - which currently requires an individual court order for each target - was primarily used to uncover suspected "terrorists". Parliament began debating a new bill on Saturday, aimed at giving the agency a free hand in carrying out undercover missions and surveillance in Turkey and abroad without the need for a court order.

Facing fierce criticism from opposition MPs, the government withdrew on Saturday a controversial clause that would have made Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan head of the MIT's intelligence co-ordination board. Atalay also announced that the prison sentences demanded for journalists who publish leaked MIT documents would be reduced.

An original version of the bill had stipulated sentences of up to 12 years. Erdogan has come under fire at home and abroad for what critics say are increasingly authoritarian policies, including curbs on the judiciary and the internet.

The government has also embarked on a massive purge of police and prosecutors after a damaging corruption probe launched in mid-December implicating key government allies.

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Axarhöfði 14,
110 Reykjavik, Iceland

Iceland - 2015