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Milli Istihbarat Teskilati

MIT makes IS a priority

As Intelligence Online revealed recently (IOL 728), Turkey's intelligence chief Hakan Fidan is going to run for office in Turkey's forthcoming general elections. The choice of his interim successor illustrates Ankara's priorities.

Hakan Fidan

Hakan Fidan, the shadowy director of the Turkish intelligence agency [...]

TURKEY Government Intelligence 28/01/2015

Pro-Ankara Kurdish militia could turn coat

Certain disgruntled pro-government Kurdish Village Guard units are understood to [...]

MIDDLE EAST UNITED STATES Government Intelligence 29/10/2014

Ankara and Riyadh unite against Washington

Washington's latest pronouncements about the crisis in Syria and Iraq have met with incomprehension among its allies in the region - to the extent that they are devising their own strategies.

TURKEY Government Intelligence 01/10/2014

Muhammet Dervisoglu

Muhammet Dervisoglu,Hakan Fidan‘s former number two at the Turkish intelligence [...]

TURKEY Government Intelligence 17/09/2014

Fidan's MIT caught between PKK and Daesh

The director of Turkey's Milli Istihbarat Teskilati (MIT), Hakan Fidan, will need plenty of skill to juggle the competing interests of keeping the PKK in check and combating Islamic State, or Daesh.

CHINA JORDAN Government Intelligence 02/07/2014

Guoanbu goes to Amman Free

Mobilised in neighbouring Syria and Iraq, Jordan's General Intelligence Directorate (GID) has been cooperating ever more actively with China's State Security service, the Guoanbu.

FRANCE Government Intelligence 07/05/2014

DGSE's role in hostage release

France's external intelligence service single-handedly conducted the negotiations that led to the release of journalists Edouard Elias, Didier Francois, Pierre [...]

TURKEY Government Intelligence 05/03/2014

Erdogan's Patriot Act

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has responded to the explosive leaked recordings scandal by extending the powers of the MIT, the intelligence service whose loyalty is a given.

TURKEY Government Intelligence 08/01/2014

MIT launches anti-Gülen purge

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has instructed the Milli Istihbarat Teskilati (MIT) to purge the administration of people loyal to Imam Fethullah Gülen.

SYRIA Government Intelligence 08/01/2014

Syria: GID and MIT supervise assault on ISIL

The offensive launched last week against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant was carefully coordinated by the Saudi Arabian, Turkish and Jordanian intelligence services.

SpotlightSYRIA Government Intelligence 18/12/2013

Bandar bin Sultan goes it alone

Western countries are now convinced that military force is not the way to remove Syrian President Bashar Al Assad and they are gradually withdrawing their military support of rebel forces in the country ahead of the UN-led Geneva II conference [.

SAUDI ARABIA UNITED STATES Government Intelligence 20/11/2013

Brennan snubs Bandar

At odds over Syria, the communication lines are severed between the heads of U.S. and Saudi foreign intelligence.

SYRIA Government Intelligence 20/11/2013

Saudi Arabia's special operations

Prince Bandar bin Sultan, who runs Saudi Arabia's General Intelligence Department (GID), is working to unite the host of Jihadist [...]

TURKEY Government Intelligence 15/05/2013

Erdogan curbs police role Free

Engaged in risky negotiations with the Kurdish separatist movement PKK, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is keen to ensure [...]

TURKEY Government Intelligence 10/04/2013

MIT was helped with hostage negotiation

Agents of the Milli Istihbarat Teskilati (MIT), the Turkish intelligence service, obtained the release of Sertac Dikilitas, a Turkish technician [...]

SYRIA Government Intelligence 13/03/2013

GID and MIT back jihadists

Saudi Arabia and Turkey's intelligence services are banking on jihadist groups to bring down Bashar al-Assad.

TURKEY Government Intelligence 13/02/2013

Hakan Fidan

Hakan Fidan, the director of the Milli Istihbarat Teskilati (MIT), [...]

TURKEY Government Intelligence 30/01/2013

MIT pursues big ambitions

Turkey's Milli Istihbarat Teskilati (MIT) intelligence service is looking to boost its capacities as the new agency responsible for anti-terrorism and interception.

ISRAEL TURKEY Government Intelligence 28/11/2012

Mossad and Ankara talk

At the forefront of the ceasefire negotiations with Hamas last week, Mossad has re-opened communication lines with Turkey.

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Milli Istihbarat Teskilati

MIT makes IS a priority

Hakan Fidan

Pro-Ankara Kurdish militia could turn coat

Ankara and Riyadh unite against Washington

Muhammet Dervisoglu

Fidan's MIT caught between PKK and Daesh

Guoanbu goes to Amman Free

DGSE's role in hostage release

Erdogan's Patriot Act

MIT launches anti-Gülen purge

Syria: GID and MIT supervise assault on ISIL

Bandar bin Sultan goes it alone

Brennan snubs Bandar

Saudi Arabia's special operations

Erdogan curbs police role Free

MIT was helped with hostage negotiation

GID and MIT back jihadists

Hakan Fidan

MIT pursues big ambitions

Mossad and Ankara talk

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