Norway and Turkey have been on a row due to listing of founder of the Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and current President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s photos in “enemy targets” during a NATO training in Norway. Turkey has reacted strongly against this action while NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Norwegian Minister of Defence Frank Bakke-Jenssen apologised for this action. Today, the person who has revealed the listings has been named as Lieutenant Commander in the Turkish Navy, Ebru Nihan Bozkurt.
BOZKURT’S TRIAL
During her career, when she was a navy lieutenant, she was accused of obtaining top secret documents, photographing some fighter jets and received 5 years 10 months prison sentence. Turkish Supreme Court’s 9th Penal Chamber had approved of the sentences of 43 suspects in the espionage trial on December 7, 2013, and she had been claimed to have fled abroad before there could be issued an arrest warrant.
Constitutional Court later has given a decision that stated the suspects’ rights had been violated as part of this trial and Bozkurt had been reinstated to her position and promoted.
