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Egypt, Turkey
MIT involved in Turkey-Egypt rapprochement

The MIT, Turkey's intelligence service, headed by Hakan Fidan (IOL 871), was recently instructed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to [...]

Published on 24/03/2021 at 03:30 GMT

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