(ANSAmed) – ISTANBUL – Turkey’s intelligence agency, National Intelligence Organization (MIT), has reportedly accepted blacklisting the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) deputies and businessmen linked with those to hinder them from running for public tenders, in a letter it officially penned to the Ankara Public Prosecutor. “Turkish state’s security and interior/foreign benefits” was the reason, the MIT said according to a report published by the daily Taraf yesterday and quoted today by Hurriyet online.
The MIT asked for a broadcast ban for the investigation after the daily Taraf reported the story first in June, but the daily Taraf obtained the document sent to the prosecutor, report said. “The top secret documents, revealed by the mentioned broadcaster (Taraf), obviously contain information that should remain secret,” the MIT said in the letter. The documents include personal and political background information on the CHP’s Tunceli deputies Huseyin Aygun and Kamer Genc, Ankara deputies Emine Ulker Tarhan and Levent Gok, Denizli deputy Ilhan Cihaner and CHP Deputy Chair Nihat Matkap.(ANSAmed).