Hakan Fidan

Turkey has deported 1,056 foreigners and put a travel ban on 7,833, as part of its efforts to stop the recruitment of jihadists in Syria and Iraq, according to the head of the National Intelligence Organization (M?T).

The parties involved in the Kurdish peace bid have jointly declared that a new phase in the process has begun, as committees under the guidance of the Undersecretariat of Public Order and Security will meet with the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, while the İmralı delegation of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) will also join the meetings.

Who does the Kurdish side, Abdullah Öcalan and the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), trust the most in the “resolution” talks? The answer is Hakan Fidan, the Undersecretary of the National Intelligence Organization (MİT), who is said to monitor even the Kurds’ breathing.

Eyes are now on the Turkish government’s moves in the Kurdish issue, after a Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) team revealed remarks by the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in which he said further steps in the peace process "must be subject to a legal framework."

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has once again rejected the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader's claims that the intelligence agency conspired against the CHP, underlining that he never instructed the agency to work against any political party. 

Turkey's intel chief has married off his son in an unannounced ceremony in which President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was among the marriage witnesses.

A number of high profile guests, including Deputy Prime Minister Yalçın Akdoğan, attended the wedding of the National Intelligence Agency (MÄ°T) chief Hakan Fidan's son at Ankara Chamber of Commerce's (ATO) Congresium Hall on Nov. 14. 

Turkey’s newly inaugurated presidential palace draws more criticism from the opposition, with references to Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and the 11th century assassin stronghold of Alamut Opposition parties have ramped up their objection to Turkey’s newly inaugurated presidential palace, set to cost more than half a billion Turkish Liras, likening the gargantuan complex to Romanian

Sırrı Süreyya Önder from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) phoned me to explain in his own terms the course of the process since Sept. 3. There were two critical points in Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu’s recent explanation of the process. The first of these was the document named the “road map.”

Lisa Monaco, a top U.S. national security aide to President Barack Obama, meets with Turkish intelligence chief Hakan Fidan

Is all well that ends well? Always? Whether it is or not, (most notably) Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, his chief intelligence officer, Hakan Fidan, and every other Turkish official who anxiously worked day and night for the safe return of 49 Turkish hostages