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Turkey’s most well-known whistleblowing Twitter account is still running after the man alleged to be behind the account was arrested Wednesday and later revealed to be a mere contributor.
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The Istanbul police operation searched through nine computers and arrested 10 engineers with alleged connections to the anonymous Fuat Avni account.
A statement identified Fuat Avni as Akif Mustafa Kocyigit, an expert on the prime minister, but the latter's brother denied it on his account, saying the team behind Fuat Avni is still active and free and that police “made a victim” of his brother.
“Did you arrest me against (!) I am at my desk. When Narcissist (President Recep Tayyip Erdogan) closes my account, I will close his,” tweeted the Fuat Avni account hours after the individual responsible was allegedly arrested. He said the days for those living in fear "are numbered."
Meanwhile, journalist Nevzat Cicek also countered the government's claims. “The detained is not Fuat Avni," he tweeted, adding that the individual detained by government forces simply "leaked" information to Fuat Avni.
The journalist admitted the detained engineers could have leaked information from the Intelligence Department, capturing much of the information sent abroad, but that it could not yet be confirmed if they all supplied Fuat Avni with information.
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