Former tech council official debunks claims of cryptophone hacking

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http://www.todayszaman.com/national_former-tech-council-official-debunks-claims-of-cryptophone-hacking_369174.html

TODAY'S ZAMAN
ANKARA
January 07, 2015

Hasan Palaz, the former vice president of the Scientific and Technological 
Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), said in comments on a Bugün TV 
network program that TÜBİTAK has neither the jurisdiction nor the 
necessary equipment to hack into phones protected with encryption 
technology.

Palaz, who was removed from his post over claims he was involved in the 
bugging of former Prime Minister and now President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's 
office and study room, said: “The other side [Erdoğan and his associates] 
have a knack for playing the victim. Also, they claim I listened to their 
encrypted phones. TÜBİTAK has neither the means nor the authority to 
engage in such activities.”

The former vice president of TÜBİTAK -- Turkey's top governmental science 
and technology institute -- also commented on audio recordings leaked over 
the internet ahead of March 30 local elections last year that were at the 
center of a graft and bribery scandal that broke at the end of 2013. The 
graft investigations made public on Dec. 17 and 25 of that year revealed 
the biggest corruption and bribery scandal in the history of the republic, 
in which some members of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) 
government as well as family members of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 
were allegedly implicated.

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