National Intelligence Organization

Turkey's outgoing intelligence chief is a joint lawmaker candidate of the ruling party, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Democratic Peoples' Party (HDP), the head of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has said, saying this will help legitimize the PKK.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said his confidant, National Intelligence Organization (M?T) Chief Hakan Fidan, resigned from his post to run for parliament for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) despite Erdo?an?s objection, as he wanted Fidan to remain in his crucial current post. 

It must be very difficult for a leader who likes to exercise authority like Turkish President Tayyip Erdo?an to admit publicly that he failed to convince Hakan Fidan, the powerful head of the National Intelligence Organization (M?T), to stay in office. ?Unfortunately,? Erdo?an told reporters accompanying him on his trip to Latin America, ?he said he could not continue any longer.?

Civil servants are lining up to leave their posts before a Feb. 10 deadline in the hopes of running in the elections for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) even though PM Ahmet Davuto?lu has said he will only approve the candidature of 15 to 20 former bureaucrats.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu signaled during a televised interview late on Feb. 4 that Hakan Fidan, the head of the National Intelligence Organization (M?T), may enter active politics in the June 7 general elections, a much debated issue up to now.

"He will make the best of any job in any place," Davuto?lu said.

Hundreds of civil servants have appealed to Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu and senior executives of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to become candidates in the run-up to the parliamentary elections in June, according to a report in daily Yeni ?afak.

While word is going around that President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s daughter, Sümeyye Erdo?an, will run for office in the upcoming general elections in June, the names of several bureaucrats may also be pronounced.

A new regulation will pave the way for the sale to private companies of citizens' personal information gathered at Turkey?s Social Security Institution (SGK).

The regulation, which will be added to the labor safety draft bill, will allow the sharing of the information of 74 million Turkish citizens to other state institutions and selling this information to private companies.

A new regulation will pave the way for the sale to private companies of citizens' personal information gathered at Turkey?s Social Security Institution (SGK).

The regulation, which will be added to the labor safety draft bill, will allow the sharing of the information of 74 million Turkish citizens to other state institutions and selling this information to private companies.

The brother of Serap Eser, the 18-year old victim of a fire bomb attack on an Istanbul city bus six years ago, has demanded information from a former interior minister, who recently said intelligence officials were involved in the attack.