CIA activities in Turkey
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Contents |
[edit] Turkey 1959
[edit] Clandestine intelligence collection
U-2 reconnaissance flights flew from Incirlik in Turkey.
[edit] Covert action
An article raised questions about the degree of CIA involvement with the Grey Wolves. It suggested the most likely connection involved Turkey's "Counter-Guerrilla organization, a branch of the Turkish General Staff's Department of Special Warfare created sometime in the 1960s."
"According to former Turkish military prosecutor and Supreme court Justice Emin Deger, there was a close, working collaboration between the NAP armed commandos, or Bozkurts, and the Counter-Guerrilla units. There was also a close tie between the Counter-Guerrilla and the CIA."
A Turcoman named Ruzi Nazar was reported to be a CIA asset from at least 1959. Specifically, the report indicated that he met Paul Henze, who later became the Ankara station chief, when Nazar worked part-time for the Voice of America. The report indicated that during World War II, Nazar had defected from the Soviets and joined the Nazi army. [1]
[edit] Turkey 1960
The U-2 flown by Francis Gary Powers and shot down over the Soviet Union in May 1960, departed from Turkey.
[edit] Turkey 1970s,1980's and 1990's
The Turkish Grey Wolves may be linked to CIA's Operation Gladio.[citation needed]
The Grey Wolves have been involved in assassinating Kurdish leaders.[citation needed]
[edit] Turkey 1970
In 1970, CIA officer Duane Clarridge, the CIA station chief in Rome at the time of the papal shooting, had previously been posted in Ankara.[2] In that year, armed bands of Grey Wolves unleashed a wave of bomb attacks and shootings that killed thousands of people,[citation needed] including public officials, journalists, students, lawyers, labor organizers, social democrats, left-wing activists and ethnic Kurds. In his 1997 memoirs, A Spy for All Seasons, Clarridge makes no reference to the Turkish unrest or to the pope shooting.[3]
[edit] Turkey 1980
A 1980 coup by state security forces deposed Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel. The Turkish security forces cited the need to restore order which had been shattered by rightist terrorist groups secretly sponsored by those same state security forces. [3]
[edit] Turkey 2007
The Grey Wolves have been involved in the assassination of journalists critical of the Turkish government such as Hrant Dink.[citation needed]
The Grey Wolves have also provided assistance to the anti-Russian Islamists such as the Chechen terrorists.[citation needed] During the Beslan school siege, the Chechen terrorists made a telephone call to Istanbul, Turkey.
[edit] References
- ^ “The CIA and the Gray Wolves”, Alert, <http://www.xs4all.nl/~afa/alert/2_7/henze.html>
- ^ Valentine, Douglas (8 November 2001), “Homeland Insecurity by Douglas Valentine. Part Six: The Counter-Terror Network”, Counterpunch, <http://www.counterpunch.org/homeland6.html>
- ^ a b Lee, Martin A., “On the Trail of Turkey's Terrorist Grey Wolves”, The Consortium, <http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/story33.html>
[edit] External links
- English page about the Grey Wolves http://www.xs4all.nl/~afa/comite/eng/index.html
|
|||||
|
|||||
