MESOP NEWS INSIGHT TURKEY / AN ACTUAL SAMPLER (ERDOGAN NOW INTEL CHIEF)

28 Aug 2017 – MESOP – Erdogan Expands Powers, Continues Crackdown with New Decrees: According to reports, a new decree will expand President Recep Tayyip Erdogan‘s powers over Turkey’s intelligence agency (MIT), as the president will oversee domestic and foreign intelligence gathering, and possess the final say over whether the MIT head may be investigated or act as a witness. A second decree continued the government’s crackdown on opposing voices, sacking hundreds of public servants and closing a number of news outlets. POMED nonresident senior fellow Howard Eissenstat called the moves “another day in the state of emergency.”

  1. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-idUSKCN1B50FM?utm_source=Project+on+Middle+East+Democracy+-+All+Contacts&utm_campaign=6f60621f89-Weekly_Wire_170814&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_75a06056d7-6f60621f89-215945965
  2. http://www.politico.eu/article/turkey-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan-tightens-grip-on-intelligence-agency/?utm_source=Project+on+Middle+East+Democracy+-+All+Contacts&utm_campaign=6f60621f89-Weekly_Wire_170814&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_75a06056d7-6f60621f89-
  3. https://twitter.com/heissenstat/status/901039816380477441?utm_source=Project+on+Middle+East+Democracy+-+All+Contacts&utm_campaign=6f60621f89-Weekly_Wire_170814&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_75a06056d7-6f60621f89-215945965