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“He spied for Italy”: Turkey commits military analyst for trial, risks up to 20 years

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The military analyst Metin Gurcan, a former Turkish army officer and founding member of the new Deva party, an opposition to the government, was indicted by an Ankara court today on charges of political and military espionage for which he faces up to 20 years in prison . According to the Attorney General of Ankara, Gurcan would have provided reports containing secret information on Turkish strategies in Libya, Syria, Azerbaijan, S-400 and the Eastern Mediterranean to the diplomatic missions of various countries including Italy and Spain.

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In custody since November 26, despite Gurcan denying the charges, he was met by a detention order issued by an Ankara court before which he was brought today and is now in jail in the Turkish capital. During the interrogations, Gurcan was asked about the meetings he had with Spanish diplomats in January and February 2021 in a hotel in Ankara. In the same days Gurcan allegedly met an official of the Italian embassy in a covered parking lot in the Turkish capital, in a car with a diplomatic plate. There were three meetings in all within a few weeks, which took place, according to Gurcan, in a parking lot due to anti-covid restrictions.

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Gurcan did not deny that he was paid for drafting strategic and military analyzes, but he strongly rejected the charge of sharing confidential or secret information as well as knowing that his interlocutors were foreign agents. He left the military in 2015, is 45 years old and is a respected military-strategic analyst who collaborates with magazines and sites such as Al Monitor, Turkish Studies, Small Wars Journal, Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, Perceptions.

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