Ankara-Sana
The Turkish regime arrested Metin Gürkan, one of the founders of the opposition Democracy and Progress Party, on charges of “political and military espionage.”
Turkish media reported today that Gürkan was placed in temporary detention last night, after he had been detained pending investigations since last Friday.
Gurkan had written in a tweet before his detention pending investigation, "I am arrested on charges of political espionage... I am shocked and I ask for support."
Ali Babacan, the leader of Gurkan's Democracy and Progress Party, told the private Haberturk channel: "Our information indicates that Gurkan does not have any access to classified classified documents because he simply does not work for the state."
It is noteworthy that Gürkan, a former military man and a well-known expert in defense affairs in Turkey, criticized, through analyzes published in a number of periodicals, the policies pursued by the Turkish regime's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which plunged the country into successive crises at various political and economic levels.
