{"id":51420,"date":"2012-02-24T15:47:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T13:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=51420"},"modified":"2014-01-06T23:32:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T21:32:37","slug":"politics-istanbul-intel-chief-reassigned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/02\/24\/politics-istanbul-intel-chief-reassigned\/","title":{"rendered":"POLITICS &#8211; Istanbul intel chief reassigned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-51422\" title=\"n_14455_4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/n_14455_4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/n_14455_4.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/n_14455_4-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>The Istanbul chief of Turkey\u2019s National Intelligence Organization (M\u0130T) has been removed from his post and recalled back to Ankara, daily H\u00fcrriyet reported today.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was announced to have been made in accordance with a decision made in January and was related to the country\u2019s ongoing match\u2013fixing probe, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the M\u0130T\u2019s Istanbul branch, \u0130.N., who was identified only by his initials, is set to pass on his duties in two days to A.D., another MIT official identified only by his initials.<\/p>\n<p>A.D. is currently serving in Ankara and has taken on significant responsibilities within the organization, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>M\u0130T\u2019s Istanbul Regional Presidency is among the most important branches of the organization, having played a critical role in obtaining intelligence prior to acts of terrorism, operations against the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) and many other counter\u2013intelligence operations.<\/p>\n<p>via POLITICS &#8211; Istanbul intel chief reassigned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Istanbul chief of Turkey\u2019s National Intelligence Organization (M\u0130T) has been removed from his post and recalled back to Ankara, daily H\u00fcrriyet reported today. The decision was announced to have been made in accordance with a decision made in January and was related to the country\u2019s ongoing match\u2013fixing probe, sources said. The head of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":51422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[7442,341],"class_list":["post-51420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-kck","tag-mit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}