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Turkish and Iranian intelligence agencies collaborated in kidnapping of Swedish national

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UN accuses Turkish Intelligence of serious human rights violations and abuse of power

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Turkish Embassy spied on critical journalist in Denmark, helped build false criminal case, secret documents reveal

Abdullah Bozkurt The Turkish Embassy in Copenhagen profiled and monitored a Denmark-based Turkish journalist who was critical of the...

Destruction, killings in Turkey’s Kurdish towns secretly sanctioned by Turkish Prime Minister Davutoğlu

Over 12,000 killed or wounded during Turkey’s security operations in Kurdish areas in 2015-2016

April 13, 2020

Nordic Monitor The conflict between Turkish security forces and militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), designated as...

Turkish intelligence officer, familiar with Erdoğan’s links to jihadists, mysteriously killed in Libya

Abdullah Bozkurt A Turkish intelligence officer and retired colonel who had extensive knowledge about links between the government of...

Ankara spying on businessmen on foreign soil, says Turkish ambassador to Uganda

Turkey’s confidential diplomatic correspondence leaked to Iran

April 9, 2020

Nordic Monitor Turkish police investigated the leak of confidential diplomatic correspondence and reports to Iran, a secret Turkish government...

Despite coronavirus outbreak, Turkey’s surveillance of critics in Germany continues, secret documents reveal

Abdullah Bozkurt Secret government documents that show illegal cyber operations and criminal investigations conducted by the government of Turkish President...

Secret wiretap reveals Turkish health minister facilitated medical treatment for family members of one-time al-Qaeda financier

Nordic Monitor Fahrettin Koca, Turkey’s health minister and the owner of the Medipol group of private hospitals, in 2013...

One-time al-Qaeda financier passed intelligence on Syria to Erdoğan’s office

Abdullah Bozkurt Yasin al-Qadi, an Egyptian-born Saudi national who was at one time flagged by the US Treasury and...

Turkey deploys police in Serbia to expand witch-hunt against Erdoğan critics

May 2, 2020

Nordic Monitor Serbia has become the first country to allow the deployment of Turkish police forces on its soil where...

Ankara spying on businessmen on foreign soil, says Turkish ambassador to Uganda

March 23, 2020

Nordic Monitor An interview given by Turkish Ambassador to Uganda Kerem Alp to the state-run Anadolu news agency confirms...

Secret wiretap shows Erdoğan defending his aide who was peddling conspiracy theories