In a statement made by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor Officer, "11,480 people were directed to ByLock without their permission. FETO used this method to hide real users," the statement read.

In the statement made by the Attorney General, the following statements were made:

There have been findings showing that these users were deliberately directed to bylock.net through apps developed by the organization's software developers to make it harder to detect real ByLock users and muddle the fight against FETÖ, it added.

"This feature of the app and its value as evidence have also been confirmed by the Supreme Court of Appeals' legal precedents and it has been put forth that it can be used as the sole basis [to prove] membership in the organization in the case of people's involvement in this network has been detected with technical data that leads to certain conviction," it said.

ILKHA