Head to Riyadh with President Receip Tayyip Erdogan on 29 April to seal Turkey's grand reconciliation with Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, hold backchannel negotiations for a prisoner swap between Russia and the US at the same time, play host to the Libyan prime minister in Tobruk Fati Bachaga the next day (see our sister letter AI, 06/05/22): such is the busy schedule of Turkey's steadfast intelligence chief Hakan Fidan

At times called a technical mastermind, a man of the shadows or the