Turkey's MIT maps out intelligence academy plans

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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.

Taksim Square blast makes Ankara ill at ease with its private fighters in northern Syria 

While it is still not clear who perpetrated the deadly attack in Istanbul on 13 November, a theory that Syrian fighters could be responsible has begun to surface in Ankara. This comes on the back of already growing disquiet between these fighters and their sponsor.

Abbas Kamel and Hakan Fidan's talks stumble on Libya and Muslim Brotherhood 

Tension is rising between Egypt and Turkey's intelligence chiefs over Turkey's refusal to extradite suspected Muslim Brotherhood members and Erdogan's Libyan ambitions, differences that jeopardise an Egyptian-Turkish reconciliation.