Why Turkish Intelligence Agency Failed to Uncover Coup Plot
SputnikNews.com
16.07.2016
US State Secretary John Kerry said that nobody in Turkey or beyond saw the military coup that rocked the country on Friday night coming. But how did Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) miss the signs of the looming insurrection?
Journalist Evgeni Krutikov maintained that the MIT was too distracted with its recently bloated responsibilities to surveil the Turkish Armed Forces in a country that has a long history of successful military coups.
Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization was the first agency to undergo “total cleansing” when Recep Tayyip Erdogan came to power, he wrote for the Vzglyad newspaper.
“All those who were recruited to work for foreign intelligence and particularly counterintelligence departments from the field army were removed by the dozens. As a result the share of MIT employees with a military background fell from 35 percent to a tiny 4.5 percent,” he said.
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