Turkish forces at Doha base authorized to conduct intelligence operations in Qatar
Abdullah Bozkurt The Turkish General Staff was in 2016 authorized to conduct intelligence and surveillance operations in Qatar, a...
Turkish Air Force crippled after mass purge of pilots by Erdoğan government
Abdullah Bozkurt NATO’s southern flank was dealt a huge blow by the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
Senior nationalist figure Zühal Topçu investigated over links to far-right terror group
Abdullah Bozkurt Secret Turkish government documents have shown that Zühal Topçu, a member of the executive committee of Turkey’s...
Turkish intelligence agency MIT got away with illegal wiretapping of prominent journalist
Abdullah Bozkurt A panel of judges acquitted Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) of falsifying documents in order to illegally...
Turkish defense contractor Savronik investigated for manipulating contracts, rigging tenders
Abdullah Bozkurt Turkish defense contractor Savronik, a company that is also active in railways, highways, finance, renewable energy and...
Erdoğan gov’t let drug traffickers go while punishing those who investigated them in Turkey
Abdullah Bozkurt In a bizarre twist of events, the Turkish government launched a criminal probe into police chiefs who...
US harbored misgivings about Syrian fighters enlisted by Turkish intelligence agency MIT
Abdullah Bozkurt There had been a growing mistrust between Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (Milli İstihbarat Teşkilatı, or MIT) and...
Turkish military says ISIS has poor cyber capabilities
Abdullah Bozkurt The Turkish military has determined that the cyber capabilities of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria...
Police chiefs who pursued high-profile al-Qaeda militants in Turkey punished by Erdoğan gov’t
Abdullah Bozkurt Two senior Turkish police intelligence officers who foiled a plot by a Turkish al-Qaeda cell that planned...
Far-right Turkish Revenge Brigade terrorist group given new life by Erdoğan government
Abdullah Bozkurt A violent ultranationalist group, designated as terrorist by Turkey’s highest criminal court over attacks in Turkey and...
