"New Advanced Democracy" - Turkish intelligence agency to screen telecommunications staff.

"New Advanced Democracy" - Turkish intelligence agency to screen telecommunications staff. (Bugun).

Personnel being hired by private telecommunications firms will now require approval by the Turkish Intelligence Agency.

Minister of Transportation, Maritime Affairs and Communications Lütfi Elvan announced that Turkey’s National Intelligence Agency (MİT) will now be screening personnel hired by private telecommunications firms according to media reports.

“The government will be taking some precautions regarding Turkcell, Avea, Vodafone and Turk Telekom,” said Elvan, adding that anyone to work at GSM operators would be subject to approval by MİT and relevant security agencies. Elvan cited the December 2013 wiretaps that had exposed alleged government corruption as justification for this decision.

Critics are concerned that this degree of intrustion into GSM personnel would give MİT the opportunity to monitor the conversations of anyone with a cell phone in Turkey.

MİT has previously been accused of illegally monitoring the conversations of journalists, including reporters and columnists of Turkish daily Taraf. Hmmm.....It's becoming obvious Islamist Turkey is turning in to a Dictatorship where only 'trusted' AKP members will get a state job.