by Abdullah Bozkurt, Nordic Monitor,
The head of the counterintelligence department in Turkey’s spy agency MIT has maintained close ties to a Turkish charity known as the logistics supplier for al-Qaeda groups worldwide and has long harbored anti-Semitic views, a Nordic Monitor investigation has found.
Nuh Yılmaz, a 48-year-old hard-core Islamist, has worked closely with the Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (İnsan Hak ve Hürriyetleri ve İnsani Yardım Vakfı, or IHH), described as the logistics supplier for al-Qaeda’s global operations.
Yılmaz, who had no experience in intelligence, was put into a senior position at MIT in a special appointment by the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on August 15, 2013 and became the right-hand man of intelligence chief Hakan Fidan, a pro-Iran Islamist who was hand-picked to run the agency in May 2010.
Although his official title was press advisor, Yılmaz carried out clandestine operations that went beyond the mandate of his office, redesigned the media landscape in Turkey and planted key operatives in senior positions in various media outlets against the backdrop of the Erdoğan government’s crackdown on the Turkish media. He helped shutter nearly 200 media outlets including the nation’s leading newspapers and broadcast TV networks.
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