ANKARA - Turkey`s interior minister said on Wednesday that claims that office of a high-level member of an opposition party was bugged would be illuminated.
Turkish Interior Minister Besir Atalay commented on the claims that a meeting between Onder Sav, the SG of the main opposition Republican People`s Party (CHP) and a governor, was bugged and the dialogue between them was leaked to the media.
"Bugging, which is illegal, harms personal freedom and violates human rights and liberties, cannot be approved," Atalay told a press conference.
Defining bugging as unethical, Atalay said the government condemned it and pledged to illuminate the incident. Atalay also said that he had asked the authorities to launch an investigation into the allegations.
Earlier on Wednesday, CHP leader Deniz Baykal said that security forces bugged Sav`s office and serviced excepts of his conversations to a daily newspaper.
The dialogue that took place between Sav and a governor last Friday, was published word by word in the headlines of a newspaper on Monday.
(BRC-ULG)