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Posted by ipso facto @ 10:26 on August 18, 2014  

German spying report angers Turkey, embarrasses Berlin

(Reuters) – The German government faced an angry reaction from Turkey and accusations of hypocrisy from its own opposition on Monday after media reports that its intelligence agency spied on its NATO ally.

The reports also said the agency had listened to the phone calls of two U.S. secretaries of state – the kind of activity for which Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticized Washington.

Turkey summoned the German ambassador and called for a full explanation following a Spiegel magazine report that the BND foreign intelligence agency had been spying on Turkey for years and identified Ankara as a top surveillance target in an internal government document from 2009.

Turkey’s foreign ministry described the weekend report as “absolutely unacceptable” if true.

more http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/18/us-turkey-germany-spying-idUSKBN0GI0TZ20140818

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