Turkey

Republic of Türkiye   (Country)
Capital city	Istanbul
Location	Europe, Middle East
Leaders	• Prime Minister of Turkey • President of Turkey
Type	nation state
Subgroups	Turkey/Deep state
Interest of	Morton Abramowitz, Maximator-Alliance, Sinan Ülgen
Member of	G-20, Global Counter Terrorism Forum, International Energy Agency, NATO, OECD, UN
Subpage	•Turkey/1993 Planned Military Coup •Turkey/Ambassador •Turkey/Central Bank •Turkey/Chief of the General Staff •Turkey/Deep state •Turkey/Deputy Prime Minister •Turkey/Foreign policy •Turkey/Leader of the Opposition •Turkey/Member of the Grand National Assembly •Turkey/Military •Turkey/Minister •Turkey/Prime Minister •Turkey/Undersecretary of state
Turkey is a nation state at the south east corner of Europe.

Turkey, and since 2022 officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a nation state with a geographically important position.

Deep state

Full article: Turkish deep state

Sibel Edmonds states that Operation Gladio was more active in Turkey than in any other European nation state. The 1996 Susurluk car crash dramatically exposed the Turkish deep state and can even be through to be the beginning of the exposure of the concept of the deep state.

Drug trafficking

Full article: Illegal drug trade

Sibel Edmonds has stated that Turkey is a key transit and refinement point for opium before it is shipped by deep state controlled planes from Afghanistan. In 1996, Hüseyin Baybaşin claimed that the heroin distribution operations are controlled by former police chief and then-minister Turkish of the interior Mehmet Agar. In 1997 he claimed that Turkish president Suleyman Demirel and Turkish Prime minister Tansu Ciller were also involved.

Sibel Edmonds has stated that when she was working for the FBI, Turkey was one of 4 countries which they were not permitted to monitor under FISA (the others being Belgium, UK and Azerbaijan).

ISIS Oil trafficking

Russia's defense ministry claimed in December 2015 to have proof that Turkey was involved in the Islamic State oil trade.

 

Events carried out

Event	Location	Description
2011 Attacks on Libya	Libya	"Perhaps one of the most egregious examples of US military aggression and lawlessness in recent memory", carried out under a pretext of "humanitarian intervention".
Evacuation from Afghanistan	Afghanistan	The evacuation of foreigners from Afghanistan, one of the largest airlifts in history

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
1997 Turkish military memorandum	“In Turkey we have a marriage of Islam and democracy. (...) The child of this marriage is secularism. Now this child gets sick from time to time. The Turkish Armed Forces is the doctor which saves the child. Depending on how sick the kid is, we administer the necessary medicine to make sure the child recuperates.”	Çevik Bir
Joe Biden	“Our allies in the region were our largest problem in Syria. The Turks were great friends, and I have a great relationship with Erdogan, [who] I just spent a lot of time with, [and] the Saudis, the Emirates, etcetera. What were they doing? They were so determined to take down Assad, and essentially have a proxy Sunni-Shia war, what did they do? They poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of tons of weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad – except that the people who were being supplied, [they] were al-Nusra, and al-Qaeda, and the extremist elements of jihadis who were coming from other parts of the world. Now, you think I'm exaggerating? Take a look. Where did all of this go? So now that's happening, all of a sudden, everybody is awakened because this outfit called ISIL, which was al-Qaeda in Iraq, when they were essentially thrown out of Iraq, found open space and territory in [eastern] Syria, [and they] work with al-Nusra, who we declared a terrorist group early on. And we could not convince our colleagues to stop supplying them. So what happened? Now, all of a sudden – I don't want to be too facetious – but they have seen the lord. Now we have ... been able to put together a coalition of our Sunni neighbors, because America can't once again go into a Muslim nation and be the aggressor. It has to be led by Sunnis. To go and attack a Sunni organization. And so what do we have for the first time? President Erdoğan told me, he is an old friend, said you were right, we let too many people through, now we are trying to seal the border.”	Joe Biden The Washington Post	2014
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	“The wannbe Sultan of a new Ottoman Reich, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, let his people vote in a referendum about new extensive powers for his office. Yesterday's "yes"/"no" vote was allegedly won by the "yes" side with 51.4% of the votes. This even though the "no" vote won in all major cities. In Turkey the vote in the major cities usually reflects the total. The campaign for the vote was very unfair with all state media and offices pushing for a "yes". Opposition politicians were put to jail or threatened with retribution. Media opposing Erdogan were suppressed or completely closed down. There is significant reasons to believe that the vote count was fraudulently manipulated. On the day of the vote the election commission, stuffed with Erdogan cronies, suddenly allowed ballots without the official stamp to be counted. According to Turkish election laws each ballot, and each envelope of a postal vote, needs to be officially stamped before voting starts. This is supposed to prevent ballot stuffing with ballots printed outside of the official channels. The election commission has given no reason yet why it thought that such a last minute rule change, in opposition to the law, was necessary or even legal. Use of unstamped ballots was reported out of many election localities in rural areas where the "yes" votes now were the majority. Additionally video was recorded of local election workers stamping ballots after they had been used for voting. The opposition is protesting and will go to court. But it will likely have little success. Erdogan has removed all judges and other legal personal that could go against him. An amateurish coup attempt against him, which he knew about before it happened, was used by him to clean all public offices of people not aligned with his party and program. The new powers of the presidency will only come into force after the next election for the presidency. But everyone expects that Erdogan will use them right away. With the issue of the referendum put aside Erdogan is now free to escalate interior and exterior conflicts. We can expect new Turkish operations in Syria as well as in Iraq to be launched soon. In the 1990s I extensively traveled in Turkey - alone, by local buses and mostly in the east. The country was waking up and in an intellectual and commercial growing phase. During the last years a new wave of conservatism has stopped that move. My friends there report of stagnation. Turkey does not have the economic and intellectual power to become a new Ottoman Reich. It will fail in new expansive endeavors. But the attempt alone will be destructive for Turkey as well as for the countries around it. Turkey is no longer a democracy. It is now a one man dictatorship with an expansive and distinct Islamist agenda. To change that will require the removal of Erdogan through some act of force.”	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Nigel Gould-Davies	“For Azerbaijan, [the reconquest of Nagorno-Karabakh] is a total victory won by the cruel, hard methods of military force and economic blockade, together with training and equipment from Turkey....But the key question is how relations between the west and Azerbaijan will develop. The west's energy ties with the oil and gas-rich country are more important than ever as it weans itself off Russian supplies. Now there are new security possibilities, especially in light of the war in Ukraine. Azerbaijan is the only country that borders both Russia and Iran, two western adversaries whose ever-closer relations evoke growing alarm. Azerbaijan’s ties with Turkey, a Nato member that also provides weapons support to Ukraine, means that it is receiving military training according to the alliance's standards. All this offers the potential for a deeper relationship, if the west has the strategic imagination to grasp it.”	Nigel Gould-Davies	5 October 2023
Wayne Madsen	“The Turkish Gray Wolves and the pan-Turkic National Action Party (NAP) made common cause with the neo-cons and their Israeli friends. The Wolves and the NAP considered the peoples of Soviet Central Asia to be "captive Turks." The Turkish right-wing nationalists foresaw a nuclear-armed Turkey extending from Thrace to the central Asian steppes.”	Wayne Madsen	28 May 2007
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu	“It is not possible to give up our rights and interests in the Eastern Mediterranean just because sanctions will come or because the EU will criticize us.”	Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu	14 December 2020

 

Events

Event	Description
1980 Turkish coup
2016 Istanbul airport attack	Shootings and suicide bombings at Atatürk Airport in Istanbul,
2016 Turkish coup attempt
Bilderberg/1959	The 8th Bilderberg and the first in Turkey. 60 guests.
Bilderberg/1975	The 24th Bilderberg Meeting, 98 guests
Bilderberg/2007	The 55th Bilderberg meeting, held in Turkey
Castle Plan	Turkish government plan to widen the range of means used to fight the Kurdistan Workers' Party. This included using the resources of the Counter-Guerrilla, such as the Grey Wolves, to assassinate PKK members and supporters. To get the plan started the deep state had to assassinate President Turgut Özal.
Ergenekon trials
Le Cercle/1998 (Istanbul)	Other dates uncertain
Operation Cage Action Plan
Susurluk car crash	A seminal but still rather poorly understood deep event. It led to the coining of the phrase "deep state", and by extension "deep politics" and "deep politician".
Turkish Council of State shooting
Turkish Straits crisis

 

Groups Headquartered Here

Group	Start	Description
Academics For Peace	November 2012
Ankara University	1923	Important Turkish university
Batı Çalışma Grubu	1997	Deep state group of high ranking Turkish military officers
Bilkent University	1984	Ranked among the top Turkish universities
Boğaziçi University	1863	Turkish elite university with strong ties to the American educational system.
Cumhuriyet	7 May 1924	Turkish newspaper with Bilderberg habit
Ergenekon		A Turkish deep state group with ties to members of the country's military and security forces. Exposed in 1996 car crash.
Galatasaray High School	1481 JL	Oldest high school in Turkey.
Hacettepe University	1967	Faculty of Medicine is ranked the best in Turkey.
Hürriyet	1948	Turkish newspaper with Bilderberg habit
Istanbul Bilgi University	1996	A private university located in Istanbul, Turkey.
Istanbul Technical University	1773	Many of the graduates take role in the development of Turkey.
Kadir Has University	1997	Established in 1997 by billionaire Kadir Has
Kadıköy Maarif College	1955	Prestigious high school in Istanbul
Koç Holding	1926	The largest industrial conglomerate in Turkey,
Koç University	1993
Marmara University	1883	A leading institution of higher education in Turkey for 124 years
Milliyet	11 February 1926	Turkish newspaper with Bilderberg habit
Robert College	1863	A long established school with many Turkish Bilderbergers among its alumni.
Sabah	22 April 1985	Turkish newspaper with Bilderberg habit
Sabancı University	1994	Founded under the guidance of the Sabancı family, with Bilderberg connections.
TESEV	1994
Turkey/Central Bank
Turkey/Deep state		'Derin devlet' is a deep state network based in Turkey. Repeated indiscretions resulted in its partial exposure, leading to the English phrase 'deep state' to refer to the phenomenon of a 'state-within-a-state or 'shadow government'.
Turkish Industry and Business Association	1971	Possible deep state milieu, under suspicion because it so well represented at the Bilderberg. Identifies with Western interests.
Yildiz Technical University	1911	Turkish engineering school
Özyeğin University	2008	Training future Turkish businesspeople

 

Citizens of Turkey on Wikispooks

Title	Born	Died	Description
Semih Akbil	1927	21 June 1986	Spokesman for the Turkish government after the invasion of Cyprus. Attended the 1975 Bilderberg
Gündüz Aktan	7 August 1941	19 November 2008	Single Bilderberger Turkish diplomat
Yıldırım Aktürk	1941		Connections in the Turkish government. Member of the Board of Directors of TUSIAD
Mustafa Akyol	20 February 1972		Single Bilderberg Turkish journalist and author arguing for Islamic liberalism
Ali Hikmet Alp	5 December 1932		Turkish diplomat who attended the 1994 Bilderberg meeting.
Fuat Alpkartal	1902	April 1978	A Turkish officer with strong ties to the Turkish intelligence community and a former Military Attaché in Washington. Attended the 1959 Bilderberg.
Ertuğrul Apakan	1947		Turkish diplomat who chaired the The UN Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee in 2010.
Tekin Ariburun	3 October 1903	13 October 1993	Attended the 1959 Bilderberg as Commander of the Turkish Air Force. Retired in 1960 because he was against the military coup. Briefly acting President of Turkey in 1973.
Mustafa Aydin	15 September 1967		Turkish "security" academic. German Marshall Fund. Bilderberg/2024
Senem Aydın-Düzgit			Single Bilderberger Turkish academic. Opponent of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, strongly for the European Union. Published about COVID-19
Aslı Aydıntaşbaş	24 February 1973		Turkish journalist in Cumhuriyet, Milliyet, CNN Türk. Deep state connections. Attended the 2013 Bilderberg meeting.
Mehmet Ağar	30 October 1951		Turkish politician who escaped the Susurluk car crash after being forewarned. Reportedly in charge of heroin trafficking through Turkey. Arrested and served time in jail. Released in 2013
Mehmet Ali Ağca	9 January 1958
Ali Babacan	4 April 1967		8 times Bilderberg visitor, Turkish politician
Galip Balkar	1936	11 March 1983	Assassinated by Armenians while Turkish Ambassador to Yugoslavia
Evren Balta			Turkish Bilderberger academic
Evelin Banev	8 October 1964		Bulgarian "cocaine kingpin".
Mehmet Bayar	1960		Turkish politician and foreign policy advisor to former President Suleyman Demirel. Attended Bilderberg/2003.
Uğur Bayar	1 May 1957		Turkish businessman and financier.
Deniz Baykal	20 July 1938		Turkish perennial politician, had to resign after 2010 sextape
Egemen Bağış	23 April 1970		Bilderberg Turkish politician. Former president of the Federation of Turkish American Associations.
İlker Başbuğ	29 April 1943		Chief of the General Staff of Turkey.
Erdem Başçı	1966		Governor of the Central Bank of Turkey from 2011-2016
Burhan Belge	1 February 1899	12 January 1967	Turkish diplomat. First husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor, father of Murat Belge
Enis Berberoğlu	1 April 1956		Turkish politician and journalist sentenced in 2017 to 25 years in prison on spying charges
Feyyaz Berker	7 October 1925	22 August 2017	spooky Turkish businessman, Turkish Industry and Business Association chair
Selahattin Beyazit	5 July 1931	21 January 2022	One of the biggest industrialists in Turkey and member of the Bilderberg Steering committee.
Dinc Bilgin	1940		Turkish media mogul whose media empire was seized by the Turkish government in 2002.
Çevik Bir	1939		Turkish general who organized 1997 'soft' coup.
Mehmet Ali Birand	9 December 1941	17 January 2013	Turkish journalist with Milliyet and CNN Türk. Spoke positively of Fethullah Gülen. Attempted framed by intelligence services.
Nuri Birgi	1907	1986	23 Bilderbergs, Turkish Permanent Representative to NATO
Eşref Bitlis	1933	17 February 1993	Turkish general who was assassinated by deep state as part of the Turkey/1993 Planned Military Coup
Cem Boyner	23 September 1955		Turkish businessman. Selected a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in 1994, and attended the 1995 Bilderberg meeting, just as he was going from leader of the Turkish Industry and Business Association to an attempted political career.
Ümit Boyner	28 September 1963		Double Bilderberg President of the Turkish Industry and Business Association
Ali Bozer	28 July 1925	30 September 2020	Became acting Prime Minister of Turkey for 9 days in 1989 after attending two Bilderbergs
Sedat Bucak	31 October 1960		Survived the 1996 Susurluk car crash.
Selin Sayek Böke	24 August 1972		US born Turkish World Bank economist being groomed by the USA to high positions in Turkey. Attended the 2015 Bilderberg
Ihsan Sabri Caglayangil	1908	30 December 1993	Turkish politician who lost his job 3 times in separate military coups. Bilderberg/1975
Yavuz Canevi	1939		Attended the 1986 Bilderberg as Governor of the Turkish Central Bank
Huseyin Celem	28 September 1937		Turkish diplomat who attended the 1993 Bilderberg in Greece as Turkish Ambassador
İsmail Cem	15 February 1940	24 January 2007	Turkish politician and Robert College alumnus. Attended 1 Bilderberg as mooted presidential candidate, a second as Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Hasan Cemal	1944		Turkish writer who published on the Armenian Genocide. Opponent of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Attended the 2004 Bilderberg conference.
Ahmet Ünal Ceviköz	6 November 1952		Former Turkish ambassador to the UK. He attended the Bilderberg for the first time in 2019.
Mehmet Fatih Ceylan	6 October 1957		Turkish spooky diplomat
Süreyya Ciliv	1958		Turkish businessman, Microsoft
Esra Eczacıbaşı Coşkun			WEF-backed Turkish "Digital Transformation Coordinator"
Canan Dagdeviren			Turkish academic who attended the 2018 Bilderberg.
Ahmet Davutoğlu			Former Turkish Prime Minister
Selva Demiralp			Bilderberg economist who has extensive interactions with several central banks including the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and the Central Bank of Türkiye. Pushed COVAX in 2021.
Süleyman Demirel	1 November 1924	17 June 2015	Turkish PM
... further results

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Armenia/Genocide	1914	1923	Armenia
Bandung Conference	1955	1955	Indonesia	Important conference for the global south; participants soon became prime targets for US foreign policy

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Nato Expansion and Turkey	blog post	17 May 2022	Craig Murray	There is another, specifically Turkish interest in play here, which is very much a factor in Erdogan’s willingness to stand up to Biden over Swedish and Finnish NATO entry. This of course relates to the permanent tension between NATO members Turkey and Greece.
Document:Speech by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on 20 August 2017 to the Syrian Diplomatic Corps	Speech	31 August 2017	Bashar al Assad	The US President is not the maker of policies, but the executor. Therefore, the “Deep State” in the United States does not govern in partnership with the President, but leaves him a small margin.
Document:The Curious Case of the Freedom Flotilla	blog post	28 April 2024	Craig Murray	Craig Murray: "I am therefore entirely perplexed that the organisers went with Guinea Bissau as the flag state rather than a state likely to stand up to Israel and the US. Of course it failed. Is the problem incompetence, or is it again security service influence?"
Document:The ‘Stolen Province’: Why Turkey Was Given A Corner Of Syria By France 80 Years Ago	Article	29 February 2020		Under the Treaty of Lausanne, Hatay Province was part of the French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon but just before the Second World War broke out, Paris suddenly decided to hold a referendum and Hatay voted to become part of Turkey.
Document:Turkey ambushed Su24 using information supplied by US	report	27 November 2015	Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation	Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces, General Bondarev, presents facts of the attack on the Russian Su-24M aircraft carried out by Turkish F-16 fighters in the sky over Syria on 24 November 2015
Document:US charged with war crimes in Syria prison siege	Article	27 January 2022	Bill Van Auken	Syria’s state media agency Sana quoted the country’s Foreign Ministry as denouncing the actions of the US and its puppet Kurdish-led militia as tantamount to “war crimes”. It demanded the immediate withdrawal of both US troops from northeastern Syria and the Turkish military from the northwest of the country.

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