The United States’ top intelligence chief paid an unannounced two-day visit to Ankara to discuss deepening instability in Syria and the joint fight against terrorism. David Petraeus, chief of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), held meetings with top Turkish officials both yesterday and on March 12, the Hürriyet Daily News learned. Petraeus met with Prime [...]
Ankara has claimed it will have sole responsibility for the routes and missions of four US Predator drones deployed to an air base in southeastern Turkey last month to help with efforts to track down and gather intelligence on Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists. The drones in Turkey will be operational after those in Iraq [...]
The National Intelligence Organization (MİT) and security forces will receive an additional $6 billion for the defense industry support fund provided by the government, which is a serious step toward Turkish intelligence reaching world standards, a high ranked official told Today’s Zaman. Of this amount, $1.5 billion is already included in the support fund, while [...]
Turkey needs to acquire more and smaller unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to prevent large-scale attacks by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) against Turkish military units near the borders with Iraq and Iran, several defense analysts said yesterday. “Although there is no formal decision taken at this point, this probably will be the decision [...]
Nuland told a daily press briefing that Clinton informed Davutoglu on an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States Adel Al-Jubeir during the conversation. A Spokesperson for the U.S. State Department, Victoria Nuland, said on Friday that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu [...]
Turkey has said it trusts on promise of NATO member states on keeping its intelligence within the alliance and not sharing it with Israel, Turkey’s new foe. Defense Minister İsmet Yılmaz told reporters following NATO’s Defense Ministers meeting in Brussels that one should trust on NATO member states’ pledge that they won’t use the intelligence [...]
Officials from Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MÄ°T) emphasized during US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper’s visit to Ankara last week that future anti-terror cooperation between the two countries must include concrete US efforts to disrupt operations of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq. According to documents obtained by the Turkish daily [...]
19 September 2011 Monday The Sabah daily in a story published on Monday claimed Ankara had asked to use the services of this controversial spy network. Turkey has reportedly asked to use the US-operated ECHELON — a secretive and officially nonexistent spy network — to help capture 120 of the most influential Kurdistan Workers’ Party [...]
19 September 2011 Monday US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper arrived in Ankara for a surprise visit, a news report said on Monday. US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper arrived in Ankara for a surprise visit, a news report said on Monday. Clapper arrived in Ankara on Sunday evening and began talks with [...]
By John Stanton A spokesman, and a high ranking official, at the Office of the Inspector General, Department of Defense, Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS), could not “confirm or deny†that the Human Terrain System (HTS) is the subject of an ongoing investigation by the DCIS and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Sources are adamant [...]
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