Turkish spy agency MIT disrupts Christian lives amid false allegations - Nordic Monitor

Turkish spy agency MIT disrupts Christian lives amid false allegations - Nordic Monitor

Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Amid rising authoritarianism and xenophobia under President Recep Tayyipp Erdogan and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Turkey’s intelligence agency, Milli İstihbarat Teşkilatı (MIT), has stepped up its repression of the country’s Christian population. Motivated by political Islamist ideology, the Erdogan government’s systematic profiling of unsuspecting Christians has upended the lives of law-abiding for…

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