Monday, April 3rd., 2017
Shocking revelations: 800 Turkish secret agents operating in Europe
Mar, 30 2017
Author: newsroom
Information published by DW
German
media outlet Deutsche Welle (DW) reports that Turkish secret agents are
operating on a wide scale in Germany and across other European
countries. Citing a Kurdish activist called Yuksel Koc, who is currently
living in hiding in Germany fearing for his life from the Erdogan
government, the report claims that Koc and two German MPs are on the hit
list of Turkish intelligence services. Koc, 52, who is accused of
collaborating with the Fetullah Gulen movement which was deemed a
terrorist organisation and responsible for last year’s failed coup
attempt against the Turkish government, told DW that he fears for his
life and requested a meeting in person with the reporters of DW in
Bremen, as he suspected his phone might be wiretapped. “I receive SMS
messages from Turkey and they have sent assassins here to neutralise me
or kill me. A source gave us some information which we passed on to the
German authorities”, he said.
Koc claims Turkish secret agents are
everywhere in Germany. Erich Schmidt-Eenboom, a special researcher in
secret services, estimates Turkey has 8,000 full-time active
intelligence agents, of which 400 are operating in Germany and 800 in
the rest of Europe. Reports by German public media outlets NDR and WDR,
and newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, reveals the Turkish secret services
had handed their German colleagues of the BND a list with hundreds of
names suspected of supporting the Gulen movement. Among the names in the
list were two German MPs. The German Federal Prosecutor launched an
investigation Wednesday under the suspicion that Turkish agents were
spying on Gulen supporters.
