Turkish intelligence

The Chechen Republic of Ichkeria’s honorary consul in Ankara was killed last year while under the surveillance of Turkish intelligence, his wife has claimed in a new petition.

Turkish intelligence officials have detected two Turkish nationals commanding militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

The families of 163 Turkish citizens have recently applied to the security forces, reporting that their relatives have joined the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to fight in Syria.

Turkey’s Mosul consulate was late to evacuate the building because Turkish authorities had reportedly been in constant contact with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants. Meanwhile, the delay in the release of the captured Turkish hostages arose from differences of opinion within the ISIL.

Ankara’s fears have become true, and the Turkish Consulate General in Mosul was raided by invading militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) on June 11. The fate of 48 consulate personnel, including Consul General Öztürk Yılmaz, was not exactly known as the Hürriyet Daily News was going to press.

The debate on children leaving their homes to join the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is still very much alive in Turkey.

Socialist veteran Theodoros Pangalos said on Monday that he plans to press charges against Avgi newspaper for reporting that, as foreign minister, he turned in Kurdish guerrilla leader Abdullah Ocalan to the Turkish intelligence service in 1999.