On February 7, 2012, during the early hours of the day, a news flash: Istanbul's Specially Authorized Prosecutor Sadrettin Sarıkaya who was conducting an investigation into the PKK-linked KCK organization, requested MIT Undersecretary HakanFidan to come to the courthouse on Thursday.
When the group failed to intervene in the AK Party, it planned to topple Erdoğan during his term as prime minister by sabotaging the government's Syria policy through wiretapping Erdoğan's meetings at his Dolmabahçe office with former Syrian National Coalition for Opposition and Revolutionary Forces (SNCORF) President Ahmad Moaz al-Khatib and HakanFidan, the chief of National Intelligence Service (MIT).
Its first clear attempt to consolidate its power was signaled in its endeavor to arrest HakanFidan, head of the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT).