Central Intelligence Agency

Last week the first breed of Bayraktar* drones began their duty. This was very important for Turkish Intelligence authorities. We have been using American and Israeli drones for our border security. Turkish drones were a very big necessity because drones are the best platforms to gather intelligence. 

In recent days, an impressive article presenting Zbigniew Brzezinki, political guru and former U.S. National Security Advisor, has been circulated on Turkey's social media. "Top U.S. National Security Official Admits Turkey Coup," its title reads. It then explains: 

The CIA has marked the anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden by live-tweeting - with a five-year delay - the raid by U.S. special forces on the al-Qaeda founder's compound in Pakistan.

Using the hashtag #UBLRaid, the CIA blasted out updates of the May 2011 strike as if it was unfolding in real time - in a highly unusual move for the secretive spy agency.

CIA chief John Brennan met Bosnian security officials on Friday to discuss security issues in the Balkan country, Dragan Lukac, head of the Federation entity's police directorate, said after the meeting.

Local experts said the visit was also an opportunity for Bosnia's security agencies and institutions to improve quality of their counter-terrorism activities.

Dzevad Galijasevic, an expert on terrorism, says there are two reasons for the CIA director's visit to Sarajevo on Friday.

Those are "the fight against arms trafficking, and Turkey," Galijasevic said, adding:

CIA Director John Brennan late last night landed at the Sarajevo airport in a U.S. military plane, local newspaper Dnevni Avaz is reporting on Friday.

According to the same source, security has been noticeably increased in the town since Thursday evening.

The U.S.-led coalition campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Iraq and Syria has successfully completed its first "phase" of operations, Baghdad-based U.S. military spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said April 13.  

The coalition is working through three main steps as it wages its 20-month-old fight against ISIL, Warren said. 

The Kremlin on April 4 slammed the leak of the "Panama Papers" tax documents as an attack aimed primarily at Russian President Vladimir Putin, claiming that former CIA officials helped analyse the papers.
 

Bulgaria's government is to adopt a set of measures to ensure the population will not fall below 7 million by 2030, Labor and Social Policy Minister Ivaylo Kalfin has said.

U.S. prosecutor Preet Bharara who has charged Turkish-Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab for fraud has been in the spotlight of Turkish Twitter users following the news of Zarrab's arrest.

Bharara's Twitter followers increased from around 20,000 to more than 115,000 in just 24 hours with Turkish users mentioning him with admiration and praises.