Intelligence
Official statistics show foreigners living in Turkey broke a new record in 2021
Levent Kenez/Stockholm The number of foreigners living legally in Turkey in 2021 has increased to a record level, Nordic Monitor...
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Turkish foreign minister met with notorious Islamist who spied on Erdoğan critics in Sweden
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, who visited Stockholm for the annual Ministerial Council of the Organization for...
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VP confirms Turkish intelligence was involved in Nagorno-Karabakh war, refuting long-denied claim
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey's vice president last week stated that its National Intelligence Organization (Milli İstihbarat Teşkilatı, MİT) played an active...
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Turkey’s intelligence agency accumulated enormous wealth, spent half a billion lira in secret ops in 2020
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (Milli İstihbarat Teşkilatı, MIT) spent nearly half a billion Turkish lira in secret...
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The head of Turkey’s top nuclear agency worked with IRGC Quds Force operative, secret wiretaps reveal
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The man who heads Turkey’s top nuclear power agency turns out to have worked with operatives of...
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Document shows Turkish Embassy in Kosovo spied on dissidents who were later abducted by intel agency, as evidence for a possible future trial
Levent Kenez/Stockholm According to a document obtained by Nordic Monitor, six opponents of the Turkish government who were abducted...
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Spying by Turkish diplomats in Zambia triggered criminal investigation in Turkey, documents reveal
Levent Kenez/Stockholm The Turkish government used its diplomats in Zambia to profile opponents of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and...
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Leaked memo reveals Turkish President Erdoğan’s family foundation involved in intelligence, surveillance abroad
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The leaked secret internal memo of a Turkish foundation run by the family of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
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Turkish Embassy in Azerbaijan spied on Erdoğan critics, threatening a fight to the death
Levent Kenez/Stockholm The Turkish Embassy in Azerbaijan engaged in a campaign of intelligence gathering and profiling of critics of...
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Turkey criminalized Chinese messaging app WeChat, investigated people for its use
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkish authorities have effectively criminalized the download and use of WeChat, a Chinese messaging and social media...
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