Turkish spy agency steps up recruitment of informants among diaspora during holiday season - Nordic Monitor

Turkish spy agency steps up recruitment of informants among diaspora during holiday season - Nordic Monitor

Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm As millions of Turkish flock to Turkey’s resort towns and cities for the summer holidays, the country’s intelligence agency, Milli İstihbarat Teşkilatı (MIT), has ramped up covert operations aimed at recruiting informants from among the diaspora, Nordic Monitor has learned. According to multiple sources familiar with MIT’s tactics, the agency — bolstered by sweeping powers under the increasingly authoritarian regime of…