Speaking at a press conference in Zagreb on Sunday, Valdec said Turek's claim was a lie and that he neither knew nor was interested in what it was based on.
Valdec said he had nothing to hide from secret services, that he could only speculate as to the reasons for such allegations, and that he regretted not having been given the chance to express his views in Globus.
Valdec said Novi List daily journalist Boris Pavelic had been the only one to phone him to ask if he would sue Turek and if he would join the group of journalists who claim they were under surveillance and demand an investigation by the Council for the Supervision of Secret Services.
Vladec said he would not join the group.
He said the weekly claimed he was an intelligence agent for West and North Europe. "If that were true, charges should be pressed against me," he said, adding such claims would make his work as war correspondent difficult because he might be killed as a spy.
Valdec said Globus editor in chief Igor Alborghetti had phoned him saying he had a file on him compiled by Turek which said that he was a French spy. "He asked if I would sue (Turek) and offered to give me his phone number."
Valdec said he did not know Turek and that he was not backed by any medium, association, organisation, corporation, or public or secret service.
"I don't have access to any state secrets," said Valdec, adding that no one had any secrets in Croatia and that everything was known, except the whereabouts of Ante Gotovina, who is wanted by the Hague war crimes tribunal. He said that if he knew where the fugitive general was he would not say it.