The wiretapping of phonecalls is both 'illegal and immoral' according to Turkey's parliament speaker.
Answering media questions after a reception Tuesday in Ankara, Cemil Cicek said: "These people (wiretappers) are acting illegally and immorally. These kind of things were never acceptable and will never be".
Asked about TV channels blackout during opposition Republicans People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu's speech, Cicek urged the broadcasters to refer to the Radio and Television Supreme Council's (RTUK) related article 8 in respect to people's privacy in their lives and using terms of humiliation while broadcasting.
Highlighting the RTUK's penalties about broadcasting 'immorality', Cicek said: "We are going to have this [wiretapping] investigated juristically, not politically. Everybody needs to act according to the laws."
When asked whether he was wiretapped as well, Cicek said: "Does it matter if it is me or another one? These are all illegal".
The recent revelations of eavesdropping are part of an ongoing political struggle that was sparked on December 17 following an anti-graft probe aimed at the government, which led to high-profile arrests.
The government called the probe a ‘dirty plot’ against it, constructed by a ‘parallel state within the state’ that it says was nestled within the judiciary and police force, whose members have links to Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen.
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