Ibrahim Kalyn biography

Fidan himself, whom Erdogan once called his main "guardian of secrets", was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs. This castling has been expected for a long time: Kalyn has actively lobbying his appointment to the post of head of MIT for the past three years; Fidan’s ambitions were more modest - he wanted the position of ambassador to Turkey to the United States.

However, before the elections, Erdogan did not go to this for quite logical reasons. Firstly, to release such a “secretary” in the United States is potentially fraught with leaks and scandals: Fidan, of course, is true, but who knows? Fidan, Kurd himself by nationality, played a key role in secret negotiations with the Kurds on the issue of their unofficial neutrality during the elections, and now the leader of the Prource party S.

Demirtash will most likely leave prison in exchange for the departure of their politics. In general, the appointment of Hakan Fidan signals that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will more and more rely on informal diplomacy as part of the establishment of relations with the Arab world. With Fidan at the helm of the ministry, this management will become one of the most important division of the diplomatic service.

Having privileged access to key foreign officials, government structures and intergovernmental platforms, diplomats are in a unique position for collecting intelligence and information. In recent years, Turkish intelligence services have used this access, not necessary to protect the interests of the Turkish national security, but often in order to help the political viability of Erdogan regime, suppress the opposition and conduct operations of influence in the foreign territory.

The unification of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and MIT under the auspices of the Unified Intelligence Community has long been a project, actively lobbying Fidan, which seeks to control all intelligence services and, possibly, to manage the country one fine day after the departure of Erdogan from politics. He proposed this idea in the year then Prime Minister Akhmet Davutoglu and left Mit to run for a place in parliament.

The deal was to become the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Davutoglu office. Fearing that he could be pushed to the background, Erdogan intervened and disrupted Fidan's plans, forcing Davutogl to move away from the post of chairman of the ruling party of justice and development of the PSR and, accordingly, from the post of prime minister. Fidan, who was unable to run for parliament, returned to MIT and was forced to postpone his plans.

It seems that now he convinced Erdogan to take a decisive step, and since not a single faction threatens his position of a strong leader within the party, the Turkish president feels a threat of these changes. In addition to surveillance of critics and opponents of Erdogan abroad, Fidan also plans to use the diplomatic service to strengthen existing proxies and create new “soft power” centers to promote the political agenda of Erdogan abroad in Turkish diasporas.

But one of his main tasks in the new post is the channels of formal and informal diplomacy in the framework of normalizing relations with the Arab world. As for Kalyn, this is an interesting character and his past says a lot. He, the long-standing person of Erdogan, served as the president’s press secretary and was an adviser to the president for foreign policy since the year. Kalyn defended his doctoral dissertation at the University of George Washington and was one of the founders of SETAV, a pro -government analytical center based in Ankara and a branch in Washington.

The data of the secret wiretapping show how Ibrahim Kalyn supervised and implemented a ten -year plan for the education of the generation of political Islamists on the African continent, using the influence of the Turkish government and the associated Islamic groups. On the wiretapping, secured by a court order in the framework of the investigation of an organized criminal network, in which Kalyn was one of the suspects, a confidential conversation between Kalyn and the late businessman Abdullah Etivnikli, leading the figure of Islamism, was described in detail.

In the message, intercepted on January 14, on the 08th and later included in the criminal case, it was shown how Kalyn informed the businessman about the visits of the then Prime Minister, and now President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Gabon, Niger and Senegal as part of the African tour in January of the year. Kalyn said that he was considering Turkish schools as strategic assets that will develop over the next years.

During his stay in Africa, Erdogan visited programs organized by Islamic schools, which is controlled by the Aziza Mahmuth Khudayi Foundation, a Turkish organization closely related to the Erdogan government. Tivnikli, who died in November, was one of the founders of the organization. According to his official biography, President Erdogan was actively associated with MTTB while studying at high school and university.In the audited conversation, Kalyn and Tivnikli are discussing the search for support for African leaders during the second summit of the Turkish-African partnership in order to build new schools in their countries.

We must discuss this later. The Summit of the Turkish-African partnership will take place here [in Turkey]. We will accept all African leaders. In the year, both Tivnikli and Kalyn were suspected of an organized criminal network, which was engaged in fraud, the forces of documents and the abuse of power in the conclusion of state contracts, tenders and the sale of state property. Kalyn acted as an illegal lobbyist Tuxtil in the Turkish capital, solving problems in the energy transactions that the businessman concluded.

The investigation was published on December 25, but Erdogan intervened and the investigation suppressed before it came to court. Since the year, Karabulut has been working as a reporter in the Turkish State World Broadcasting Network TRT, a government hub. A total of 41 people, including the son of Erdogan Bilal and Saudi businessmen, Yasin al-Kadi, talk ahead-aut. It should be noted that the Turkish government not only uses Islamic groups to expand its coverage and influence on the African continent, but also a special law of the year established the official government fund called “Maarif” and transferred its management to the famous Islamists adhering to gihadist views.

Each year, the fund receives huge amounts of money from the budget of the Turkish government. Today, “Maarif” works in 67 countries and manages schools and 36 dormitories with a number of students of 50 people. In addition to this, Islamist groups supported by the Turkish government also manage hundreds of their own schools on the continent to help promote the political Islamic ideology of the Erdogan government.

In every pre -election period, African students participated in the campaigns of the Erdogan government, portraying Erdogan a kind of caliph revered by many in Africa. It is expected that with the new position of the head of MIT with abundant financing and countless resources at his disposal, Kalyn will give an additional impetus to the education of the Islamist generation on the continent for use for political purposes and, possibly, use this human resource as an asset to collect intelligence and participation in espionage in favor of MIT.

In general, Kalyn’s relations with Islamists are long -standing, since student times. We correct these experts a little, did not meet, but regularly meets and even organized a secret meeting in R. Erdogan in May s. Exactly before the elections. According to confidential documents, these two not only had a few secret meetings in Turkey, but they were also called suspects in the framework of the same criminal investigation conducted in the period from the year under the supervision of the main prosecutor's office of Istanbul.

The records in the case materials clearly indicate that Kalyn maintained close ties with the Egyptian citizen named Usama Kutb, a confidant of al-Qadi in Turkey, also suspected of the same criminal case. The intercepted messages of Kutba, who at that time were listened to by the prosecutors of Istanbul as part of a criminal investigation of an organized criminal syndicate, showed that Kutb and Kalyn spoke several times, organizing personal meetings between Kalyn and Al-Kadi.

For example, in wiretapping on June 19, Kutb called Kalyn to agree on a tripartite meeting for him and his boss al-Kadi. The meeting, apparently, was a preparation for the meeting of al-Qadi with Erdogan, the then Prime Minister, and now the President of Turkey, and other high-ranking government officials. It seems that Kalyn gave instructions to Al-Kadi and his accomplices in Turkey on how to focus on Turkish officials and advised them to best influence Turkish foreign policy and intelligence apparatus against Egypt, Syria and other countries where they had a common interest in supporting political Islamic groups, especially the Muslim brothers.

In another case, from SMS, intercepted by Turkish investigators, it became known that on October 9, a secret meeting was organized between al-Qadi and Kalyn. The SMS message between Kutb and Kalyn, dated October 8, showed that Kutb asked for a second meeting with Kalyn on behalf of al-Kadi, and in response Kalyn told him that he could meet with them in the office of the Prime Minister, where Kalyn worked as deputy minister, advising Erdogan on foreign policy.

All these meetings were secretly organized, and the people of Erdogan made every effort to hide from the public the meeting of al-Kadi in Istanbul and Ankara. At that time, al-Qadi secretly traveled to Turkey to talk about the transfer of funds to invest in the country, asking the Erdogan government to abuse his powers and promote commercial transactions in violation of Turkish legislation.He was given access to the highest leadership of Turkey to conduct business on behalf of Islamic groups in Egypt, Syria and other places.

And, apparently, these contacts continue now. Al-Kadi’s trips to Turkey, some of which were committed when he was still under the sanctions of the UN and the USA and, under Turkish law, was forbidden to be prohibited, did not meet obstacles, since Erdogan’s personal bodyguards accompanied him at the entrance and departure, as well as on trips within Turkey. Although he secretly concluded business transactions with the son of Erdogan Bilal and transferred millions of dollars to Turkey, he also met with Erdogan, the then head of MIT Hakan Fidan and Kalyn, to discuss issues of foreign policy, intelligence and security.

The transfer of millions of dollars to accounts controlled by the son of Erdogan Bilal provided him with unprecedented access to key persons. Al-Kadi and Bilal were secret partners in Bosporus, a dummy company, which on paper belonged to the projor businessman Chengiz Akturka and his wife Rabia Akturk. The investigation showed that all Bosporus assets belonged to al-Qadi, his son Muaz al-Kadi and Kutbu.

The project under consideration was planned to purchase a plot of land with an area of ​​32 hectares located in the most valuable part of Istanbul, which was occupied by the Police Academy of the Etiler. Bilal and his accomplices sought to buy land at the lowest price, without a tender, and build a shopping center and a high -altitude residential complex of the luxury at this place after receiving a permit, which allows them to build at a height exceeding existing zoning restrictions.

The prosecutors claimed that Bilal used the influence of his father to help acquire valuable lands in various provinces at prices, much lower than the market. The Turkish government also issued an official circular announcing him with a terrorist, which prohibits him to enter Turkey or transfer funds there. Nevertheless, he secretly traveled to Turkey, including on the official aircraft of Erdogan in the year, when he was still under sanctions, followed by new trips under the protection of Erdogan, meetings with him, as well as Fidan and others.

Al-Kadi, Bilal, Kalyn and dozens of other persons were suspected of investigating corruption conducted by the prosecutor’s office of Istanbul, and were objects of orders for the detention issued on December 25. However, Erdogan intervened, illegally preventing the execution of orders, ordering the police to ignore orders of the prosecutor's office. After the removal of prosecutors and police chiefs who participated in the investigation, Erdogan managed to turn the investigation and save all suspects from serious criminal charges.

Thus, Kalyn is in full “hook” with the President of Turkey: he has plenty of incriminating evidence for Kalyna. Another point in the biography of Kalyna is his connection with the Iranians. In the resume located on the official MIT web page, Ibrahim Kalyn, recently appointed by its leader, did not mention his work in the radical Islamist publication funded by Iran, which was closed due to his ties with terrorism.

It was named as a center for coordination of the special forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Corps of Al-Kuds in the Turkish capital in an indictment prepared by the main prosecutor’s office in the state security court building in the year. The cell was led by Ferkhan Ozman, who was preparing to treat weapons and explosives in Iran and was convicted of a series of murders, including the murder of journalist Ugure Mumju in the X.

In each issue of the magazine, a frank anti -Semitic and anti -Western content was published, and the violent and armed jihad was approved. The article was written with the aim of promoting opinions against Turkey’s participation in the first war in the Persian Gulf to help the US multinational coalition to respond to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2. The then President of Turkey Turgut Ozal advocated the participation of Turkey in the coalition, while the military reacted reluctantly to this idea.

Kalyn, at that time, a young student of the Faculty of Literature of Istanbul University, indicated in the article that mass protests should be organized throughout the country and that people should respond to such actions as mobilization of the armed forces or sending the troops to join the US coalition. The same article quoted other people's words that if they were sent to fight, they would first kill American or British officers in their units, and would not open fire on Iraqi troops.

Muslims should wage war against the Americans and their accomplices, and not fight for the interests of the United States, some said in the same article. Kalyn described Khomeini as the “leader of the uprising”, “the leader of the Islamic Revolution”, “Imam of Revolutionary Muslims” and “Example Muslims”.According to the judicial indications of the head of the Turkish police, Erkan Yunal, who investigated the Al-Kuds cells in the period for the year, Iranian agents used the magazine to conduct their secret operations.

Almost every issue of the magazine was subjected to lawsuits by the authorities, and decisions were made to confiscate all copies of the magazine that were walking. The magazine was forced to close because of a series of criminal investigations, during which many of its employees were charged, including the editor-in-chief of Burkhan Kavunchu, the leading operative of Al-Kuds, according to the laws on the fight against terrorism.

The followed trials showed how Iran planned and committed the murders, explosions and abductions of people in Turkey, using their Turkish operatives working in coordination with Iranian curators. Most suspects of belonging to the Al-KudS organization, convicted of serious accusations, were released after Erdogan came to power in the elections in November of the year, some thanks to the amnesty bills pushed through the government through parliament, while others, thanks to the revision of cases organized by the Ministry of Justice, dominated by the Islamists.

However, in the year, the Istanbul prosecutor’s office began a new counter-terrorism investigation against al-KudS, known under the Turkish name Tevhid, after the information received by the Turkish police within the country, as well as intelligence, transferred from the United States and Israel, showed that Iran resumed many former operatives who were actually identified during the investigation In the x and early xs.

As the investigation is deepened by some senior government officials, including two advisers to President Erdogan, as well as the then head of MIT, Hakan Fidan, were charged with ties with the Iranian cells of Al-KudS and Iranian generals. Erdogan terminated the investigation in February, as soon as he was warned of his existence, and the matter never came to court.

Instead, investigators who compiled the map of the Al-KudS network in Turkey were punished by Erdogan regime, and some were even imprisoned for fictitious accusations.