KONYA, Turkey
Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has refuted claims saying that his protection officers were detained over the leaked recording of a high-level security meeting as he voted in the central province of Konya on Sunday.
Davutoglu added that "no one except the ministry spokesperson is authorized to issue a statement or speculate on the matter."
However, he did ask the public not to put their trust in the allegations, which he said aim to manipulate and protect sources, until an official press release.
Meanwhile, Turkey’s Foreign Ministry has denied that one of Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s protection officers was detained for illegally wiretapping a high-level security meeting.
Turkish daily Haberturk published a news story claiming the officer was held after tapes of the meeting between Davutoglu, Turkey’s intelligence agency chief Hakan Fidan and Deputy Chief of General Staff Gen. Yasar Guler were leaked.
The illegally recorded conversations were posted on YouTube on March 27.
The Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Sunday that the news story had "nothing to do with reality".
‘’The necessary investigation towards swiftly identifying the perpetrators of this act and bringing them to justice is being carried out by our judicial authorities multi-dimensionally,’’ the statement said.
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