In the letter requested from MİT by the Istanbul 25th High Criminal Court regarding the determination of the senders of some of the e-mails in question, the IP records of the users accessing the systems with the extension "ibb.gov.tr" and the security log records, the research conducted on the e-mail addresses and domain usernames and passwords, which were stated to be included in the digital data of the defendant Hüseyin Gün and claimed to be related to ibb.gov.tr, was included.
In the article, it was noted that Gün's digital materials were examined and that the organization was conducting an investigation into the foreign nationals he was in contact with.
MI6, CIA AND MOSSAD CONNECTIONS IN HÜSEYİN GÜN'S PHONE GUIDE
In the article, in the study of those in Gün's telephone directory of foreign intelligence service contacts, people who held various positions within the British Foreign Intelligence Service (MI6), former Deputy Director of Defense Intelligence under the British Ministry of Defense, former Director General of Defense and Intelligence, former Head of Defense Intelligence, former British Special Forces Commander, former intelligence officer within the US Foreign Intelligence Service (CIA), a US-based intelligence company officer, US National It was noted that the telephone numbers of the former intelligence analyst working in the Intelligence Council and the former vice president of MOSSAD in charge of Foreign Relations and Operational Cooperation were found.
It was stated in the article that Gün had contacts with company officials providing services in the field of cyber security abroad, and that an investigation was made into his digital materials.
In the article, it is stated that Gün founded a US-based social media intelligence and cyber security company together with Aaron Barr, who has open source information that he is a former CIA employee, and it was stated that various presentations, reports and files prepared within this company regarding the 2019 local elections, election campaign management processes and social media-based data analysis activities were found to be presented to the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality.
ELECTION REPORTS PREPARED TO BE SUBMITTED TO IMM WERE FOUND
It was also reported that among the materials, commercial presentations and documents regarding operations and digital monitoring activities belonging to the structure named "X81", which is stated to include US and UK intelligence analysts with the aim of influencing public mobility and political preferences in Türkiye, were also found.
BEYOND A SIMPLE COMMERCIAL ACTOR, HE HAS A PROFILE THAT IS COMMITTED TO INTELLIGENCE METHODOLOGIES
In the article, it was noted that in the evaluation part, Hüseyin Gün's digital materials, people in the phone book, his ties with foreign intelligence members and the intelligence documents he prepared were examined as a whole.
The article evaluated that Gün, beyond a simple commercial actor, had a profile mastering intelligence methodologies and was involved in activities aimed at manipulating the political processes of states, and the following statements were made:
"As a result of the research, it was seen that he had a wide network of people in the phone book who held high-level positions in intelligence services such as MI6, GCHQ, CIA and MOSSAD, served as bureaucrats at the Ministry of Defense and worked in the former special forces. Even though such individuals who served in Western intelligence services and armies have left public duties, they continue their work by transferring the experience they have gained to the private sector through the private companies and civilian contact networks they have established, and to meet the foreign policy and security needs of the states." It is known that they continue to do so. This situation shows that Hüseyin Gün is in direct and intense contact with individuals of this profile, and when the activity methodology of Defendant Gün is examined through this network, it is evaluated that he is trying to establish a systematic contact network within the public and private sector in our country, using the technical experience he gained from individuals who worked in foreign intelligence services, under a commercial disguise through the companies he founded or partnered with. "It has been seen that he has a good command of professional intelligence methodology, based on issues such as these."
In the article, when the examinations made on the indictment and documents and Hüseyin Gün's contacts were taken together, it was evaluated that the findings in the indictment and the evaluations regarding these findings were compatible with the findings of MİT.
