Published 31 December 2022 at 19.16
Media. Aftonbladet has today published a column by Jan Guillou in which the Turkish intelligence service is accused of being behind a terrorist act against its own population. According to Guillou, the text could not be published tomorrow, when the new law on “foreign espionage” comes into force.
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“On November 13, a terrorist act took place on the main tourist strip of Istiqlal Street in Istanbul. The bomb attack that killed 6 and injured 81 people was most likely organized by the Turkish intelligence service.”
So writes Jan Guillou, who claims that the terrorist act was carried out to justify an offensive against the Kurds of Syria, who were singled out as the culprits.
He further states that it was “probable” that people in Turkish service were also behind an alleged Kurdish grenade attack on a Turkish school, with three children killed as a result.
“Today what I write in the following is legal. Tomorrow it is criminalized. Then myself as well as one or more editors at Aftonbladet would risk a spy conviction and prison. That's how crazy the legislation has become,” writes Guillou on New Year's Eve.
He is referring to the new “foreign espionage” law that comes into effect tomorrow, January 1. The law prohibits the publication of non-official military information about Sweden's, or our allies', warfare abroad. Especially if such a publication could disrupt our international relations.
“The information about Turkey's bombing war and war crimes and the prelude to the war are of course not official in the censorship state of Turkey. Thus classified. Thus 'foreign espionage' if they are published in Swedish press tomorrow. But not today,” writes Guillou.
Jan Guillou was convicted of espionage in the 70s in the so-called IB affair. Together with fellow journalist Peter Bratt, he revealed that there was a secret organization within the intelligence service that the Riksdag did not know about.