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MIT chief Fidan's powers grow

Turkey's military interception service now reports to the Milli Istihbarat Teskilati (MIT), the country's civil intelligence agency.

Subscribers only 25.01.2012

Strategic contract on Syrian border

The border with Turkey, which is the Syrian Free Army's principal point of entry into Syria, could soon be demined.

Subscribers only Corporate Intel 21.12.2011

Paris gets tough on PKK

Paris and Ankara are coordinating their diplomatic response to the Syrian crisis, and are exploring joint support of Syrian Free [...]

Subscribers only Agencies 07.12.2011

Ankara asphyxiates Damascus

While it continues to mull the creation of a no-fly zone along its border with Syria (see p.1), Ankara is [...]

Free access Defence 23.11.2011

Israel bad for sat business

Tel Aviv is trying to weigh in on the terms of the Göktürk satellite sale to Ankara. Other deals by French satellite makers could also prove problematic for the Israeli military.

Subscribers only Corporate Intel 09.11.2011

Anti-Kurd pact with Ankara

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi’s visit to Turkey on [...]

Subscribers only Defence 26.10.2011

Secret war with Ankara

The Turkish Army last week began week-long manoeuvres on the Syrian border, as it did in 1998 when the two [...]

Free access Defence 12.10.2011

Kurds and MEK join forces

Kurdish separatists in the PKK and the PJAK, who are [...]

Subscribers only Agencies 12.10.2011

When the MIT talked to the PKK

With Erdogan poised to launch an offensive against the PKK, a leak has provided a reminder that the PM secretly negotiated with the Kurdish movement until 2010.

Subscribers only 28.09.2011

Damascus hunts exiled opposition figures

A number of key opposition figures have been kidnapped in Turkey and Lebanon in operations led by the Syrian intelligence service.

Subscribers only 28.09.2011

Exiled Chechens executed

Three Chechen militants living in exile in Turkey, Berg-Haj Musayev, Rustem Altamirov and Zaurberk Amriev, were gunned down in front [...]

Subscribers only Operations 28.09.2011

Erdogan puts police on PKK case

Having replaced the Turkish army’s commanders by generals close to his Justice and Development Party (AKP), Prime Minister Recep Tayyip [...]

Subscribers only Defence 31.08.2011

David Petraeus

David Petraeus, who was confirmed by the Senate on June [...]

Subscribers only 27.07.2011

No more guns for Turkey

Turkey has recently become the focus of the regular turf wars between Israel’s defence and foreign minsters (IOL 640). According [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intel 29.06.2011

A&T, European banking trap-door for Libya

The Istanbul based Arab Turkish Bank which has given the Libyan regime access to the international banking system, is now the object of sanctions.

Subscribers only 29.06.2011

MIT

MIT, which doubles as Turkey's internal and external intelligence service, [...]

Subscribers only 29.06.2011

Erdogan keeps options open in Syria

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was re-elected last weekend, has two irons in the fire in Syria. He is [...]

Subscribers only Back-Door Diplomacy 15.06.2011

Plotting revenge against Ankara

Furious that Recep Tayyip Erdogan ’s government allowed Syrian opposition [...]

Subscribers only Defence 15.06.2011

PKK tries to open front in the north

The assassination attempt by PKK fighters on Prime Minister Recep [...]

Subscribers only Defence 18.05.2011

Kurds target Damascus and Ankara

Despite the rapprochement between Damascus and Ankara and the raids by the Syrian army against Kurdish camps along Syria’s border [...]

Subscribers only Defence 27.04.2011

Erdogan’s double-dealing in Syria

The rapprochement between Turkey and Syria that was initiated last year (IOL 617) may fall victim to the wave of [...]

Subscribers only Back-Door Diplomacy 13.04.2011

Army must listen to Erdogan

Concerned that the military might use its interception capability against the government, Turkey's Prime Minister may transfer the army's interception centre to the civil intelligence service.

Free access 30.03.2011

Fidan's clean-out at MIT

Long a bastion of anti-Islamist secular officirs, the MIT must now resign itself to working with the government of Turkey's Islamist prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Subscribers only 16.03.2011

Army spied on by suppliers

The complaint lodged by the Ministry of Justice against sixty-odd civil servants working at the Ministry of Defence, including 42 [...]

Subscribers only Defence 02.03.2011

Shadowy fighter lifts lid

Colonel Arif Dogan, currently on trial for allegedly taking part [...]

Subscribers only Defence 16.02.2011

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All articles - Turkey

MIT chief Fidan's powers grow

Strategic contract on Syrian border

Paris gets tough on PKK

Ankara asphyxiates Damascus

Israel bad for sat business

Anti-Kurd pact with Ankara

Secret war with Ankara

Kurds and MEK join forces

When the MIT talked to the PKK

Damascus hunts exiled opposition figures

Exiled Chechens executed

Erdogan puts police on PKK case

David Petraeus

No more guns for Turkey

A&T, European banking trap-door for Libya

MIT

Erdogan keeps options open in Syria

Plotting revenge against Ankara

PKK tries to open front in the north

Kurds target Damascus and Ankara

Erdogan’s double-dealing in Syria

Army must listen to Erdogan

Fidan's clean-out at MIT

Army spied on by suppliers

Shadowy fighter lifts lid

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All articles - Turkey

MIT chief Fidan's powers grow

Strategic contract on Syrian border

Paris gets tough on PKK

Ankara asphyxiates Damascus

Israel bad for sat business

Anti-Kurd pact with Ankara

Secret war with Ankara

Kurds and MEK join forces

When the MIT talked to the PKK

Damascus hunts exiled opposition figures

Exiled Chechens executed

Erdogan puts police on PKK case

David Petraeus

No more guns for Turkey

A&T, European banking trap-door for Libya

MIT

Erdogan keeps options open in Syria

Plotting revenge against Ankara

PKK tries to open front in the north

Kurds target Damascus and Ankara

Erdogan’s double-dealing in Syria

Army must listen to Erdogan

Fidan's clean-out at MIT

Army spied on by suppliers

Shadowy fighter lifts lid

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