However, the report also mentions, and then summarily dismisses, another hypothesis the possibility that an unknown, third party carried out a wiretap.

Erdoğan and his advisers have now hit back. They accuse the Gülenists of mounting a bureaucratic coup and engaging in a wide range of dirty tricks, from planting evidence against generals who were convicted last year of plotting to overthrow Erdoğan s government to extensive unauthorized wiretap ping .