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Saturday, April 19, 2014

Is Turkey reverting to a 'muhaberat' state? - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Is Turkey reverting to a 'muhaberat' state?

Is Turkey becoming an intelligence state? Is the country reverting to the era of the "supreme national chief"? These questions are frequently asked nowadays. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan — who has not hesitated to punish judges, prosecutors and police who he accused of being part of a "parallel state" — now wants to increase his operational powers internally and abroad with a new National Intelligence Organization (MIT) law that would also reinforce his immunity. For the opposition, this is called a "muhaberat," or intelligence, state.

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