Two Police Officers Extradited from Romania to Turkey, Arrested on Arrival

20:28, March 30, 2015

Two former police officers accused of wiretapping Turkey's President Erdogan were arrested late on Saturday at Istanbul airport after being extradited from Bucharest, Romania.

A Romanian court denied the pair's pleas for asylum and ruled in favor of extraditing former police chief Sedat Zavar and officer Ilker Usta on Mar. 20.

Authorities accuse Usta and Zavar of participating in a scheme to place bugs and eavesdrop on Erdogan during his tenure as prime minister, before he was elected president in August 2014.

Prosecutors say the pair acted on the orders of Turkish preacher and opinion leader Fethullah Gulen, after whom the controversial Gulen Movement (also called Hizmet) is named.  Read more... (321 words)

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