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The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Ex-Fed executive joins Straife, Bpifrance loses top managers, Treliant beefs up compliance team, The Van Aucker Group talks Turkey, financial investigator sets up in Suffolk

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week, we report from New York, Washington, Houston, Paris and Bristol in the UK.

HoustonFormer Federal Reserve Board executive Christopher Laursen joins Straife

ParisBpifrance executive committee loses another member

New YorkWells Fargo's Isabel Plasencia moves to Treliant

WashingtonRobert Lewis anchors The Van Aucker Group to Ankara again

BristolPolice inspector Mark Lemoir goes private

Baghdad called upon to mediate between the MIT and the PUK

Hugely concerned about the origin of the intelligence that allowed the MIT to attack the Sulaymanyah airport on 7 April, the PUK has called on Baghdad to lead the investigation. It is also hoping to calm down the increasingly tense relations between the Talabani clan and Ankara.

Turkish cyber opens Swiss and Dutch offices to win over European market

Given the reluctance of European countries to hire Turkish companies close to the authorities in Ankara, Turkish cyber companies have been relocating their head offices to Europe.

Burak Yahsi, the agent at the heart of an FMS contract in Muscat

The second part of our series on Burak Yahsi. When clients go silent on his commission, the Turkish sales agent and head of USI International, who has won contracts with Oman's ministry of defence, does not give up lightly.

Burak Yahsi, winning contracts for Turkish energy and defence in the Middle East and Central Asia

In this first part of our series on Burak Yahsi, we look at how as head of the consultancy company USI International he has become a crucial player in the gas trade in Turkmenistan, all the while breaking into defence markets in the Middle East and Africa.

Spotlight
Abu Dhabi builds rapprochement with Turkey through electronic warfare industry

Electronic warfare firms are a major part of the current defence industry negotiations between Turkey and the UAE, which have yet to reach an agreement on the sensitive issues of the terms and financing of partnerships.

The Agencies' Gazette
MIT spending, DC quiet on pilots in China, Sergey Beseda in good form, Tracfin reform toughens, KGB takes swipe at MI6

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community, from Ankara to Moscow via Paris and London.

TurkeyIraq and Syria operations MIT's biggest expense

France/United StatesUS and UK left France out of loop over China pilot training

Russia/UkraineQuestions of Ukraine intel fail to shake Beseda from FSB

FranceFinance ministry's intelligence reform ramps up a notch

United Kingdom/RussiaRussian author takes swipe at MI6

Ezra Friedlander, Turkey's lobbyist in Washington, teams up with Ankara's allies

Ezra Friedlander, a Washington lobbyist and PR adviser to Turkey, has recently started promoting Azerbaijan's interests on Capitol Hill. His connections to the US Israeli community are of particular interest to both Turkey and Azerbaijan.

Turkey's Kron group launches drive in Dubai and New York after severing links with ZTE

Turkish cybersecurity company Kron Teknoloji has severed its links with Chinese telecoms giant ZTE ahead of a drive to develop its international presence. Its former backer, now on the US sanctions list, has been replaced by a shareholder with better relations with the States.

Ankara bids to get into space observation's major league with Impro

Young public sector company Impro, which markets the images taken by Turkey's military satellites, has set up a partnership with Telespazio to help it boost Turkey's geospatial intelligence capacity ahead of the eagerly awaited arrival of the Gokturk-3 observation satellite.

Turkey's MIT maps out intelligence academy plans

Following the lead of a number of Western intelligence communities, Turkey is planning to open an intelligence academy, under the aegis of the MIT, headed by spymaster Hakan Fidan.

The Agencies' Gazette
Moldovan security council, Russia's data border crack down, Xi Jinping and Moscow, Ankara struggling with PKK

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community. This week, we bring news from Ankara, Moscow, Chisinau and Beijing.

MoldovaPresidential cabinet musical chairs.

RussiaRoskomnadzor strengthens border controls.

China/RussiaBeijing gets involved in peace efforts in Europe.

Turkey/IraqAnkara searches for equipment to fight PKK in northern Iraq.

Kalman Chaim Sporn helps Turkish embassy in Washington promote rapprochement with Israel

Despite tensions on the ground, the Israeli-Turkish rapprochement is moving forward with the help of the Turkish ambassador in Washington, Hasan Murat Mercan, flanked by consultant Kalman Chaim Sporn.

Huawei flounders after losing Turkish bid

Huawei is determined to provide data network services to the Turkish armed forces. Now tangled up in ruthless negotiations with Ankara and local mobile companies, the Chinese giant is damaging its thus-far good relations there.

Boston's Airde Group trips up on Turkish rugs

The private investigation firm has been working for Turkish carpet maker Orient Turistik Magazacilik San Ve Tic, (OTMSVT) which alleges that distributor Aytek passed off poor quality rugs as imitations of OTMSVT products. The investigation's results have been mixed.

Lobbying firm Straife comes to Turkey's rescue in dealings with US Treasury

Increasingly concerned about being sanctioned by the US over their alleged links with Russian industry, Turkish companies have hired the services of the lobbying firm Straife, which employs former US intelligence veterans.

Spotlight
SiberAsist, Turkish intelligence's cyber tool shopper

Behind its shiny sales facade, the Turkish company SiberAsist, one of Cem Günal and Serap Günal's many businesses, has been quietly helping the Turkish intelligence services source cyber-intelligence and forensics technologies.