{"id":75066,"date":"2015-09-23T09:53:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T08:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/?p=75066"},"modified":"2023-04-05T12:41:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T09:41:16","slug":"is-turkey-secretly-working-on-nuclear-weapons-the-national-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2015\/09\/23\/is-turkey-secretly-working-on-nuclear-weapons-the-national-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Turkey Secretly Working on Nuclear Weapons? | The National Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>While the world worries about Iran&#8217;s nuclear program, could another nation in the Middle East have atomic desires?<\/h3>\n<p>Hans R\u00fchle<\/p>\n<p>Some months ago it became known that the German Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst &#8211; BND) was spying on Turkey. Turkey&#8217;s political leadership was none too happy. Yet the BND has good reasons to keep a watchful eye on Ankara. It is not only the crises in Iraq and Syria, drug-smuggling, people-trafficking and the activities of the PKK that make Turkey a legitimate target for German intelligence. For quite some time, evidence is mounting that Ankara is trying to acquire nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/tr\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Picture_14_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Over the past two decades, discussions within the nuclear community about emerging nuclear powers always centred on the &#8220;usual suspects&#8221;: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Egypt, Japan, South Korea and Turkey. Not surprisingly, opinions as to the likelihood of a military nuclear program differed. In the case of Iran, for example, the evidence appeared solid. By contrast, the case of Turkey was built on vague indications.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em>Is Turkey Secretly Working on Nuclear Weapons? | The National Interest<\/em><\/p>\n<p>More:\u00a0http:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/feature\/turkey-secretly-working-nuclear-weapons-13898<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the world worries about Iran&#8217;s nuclear program, could another nation in the Middle East have atomic desires? Hans R\u00fchle Some months ago it became known that the German Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst &#8211; BND) was spying on Turkey. Turkey&#8217;s political leadership was none too happy. Yet the BND has good reasons to keep a watchful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":783430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[7858],"class_list":["post-75066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-nuclear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75066","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=75066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}