Turkish Minister: Telecommunications Directorate Must Be Reformed

Turkey's Communications Minister said on Monday that the country's Telecommunications Directorate (TIB) needs to be restructured after unchecked and damaging activities took place in the department.



Turkey's Transport and Communications Minister Lutfi Elvan visited the Anadolu Agency's Editor's Desk on Monday and responded to questions regarding the Turkish wiretapping scandal.



He also discussed the latest developments concerning the construction of the country's third airport and rail networks. 



Elvan said the Turkish government completed all its plans for the restructuring of the Directorate. "We will be ready to discuss it in the cabinet in the coming weeks," he said.



Elvan also said large-scale illegal activities took place in the Directorate and they were published on social media before the country's local and presidential election this year with the aim of discrediting Turkey's economy and the country's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.



TIB is the state agency in charge of legal monitoring of communications in the country.



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