Former head of Greek intelligence service Leonidas Vasilikopoulos said they had received information from their agents in Turkey that Turkish agents or others were involved in the forest fires on Greek islands.

Turkish intelligence sources denied the report and said " Israel is in the habit of creating disinformation campaigns using different papers.

His public position was that of First Secretary at the British Consulate ; in reality, his intelligence work required overseeing British agents and working with the Turkish security services.

In the dimly lighted bar of the sleek Park Hotel, Turkish intelligence agents mingle with American engineers and Balkan refugees, drinking the latest Yankee concoction of vodka and orange juice, called a ' screwdriver '.

Turkey will build new military / intelligence satellites including a 0. 8m resolution reconnaissance satellite ( Project Göktürk-1 ) for use by the Turkish Armed Forces and a 2m resolution reconnaissance satellite ( Project Göktürk-2 ) for use by the Turkish National Intelligence Organization.

Before the German invasion of Poland in 1939, he destroyed all records of his existence then moved to Turkey, where he worked for Turkish radio and set up an intelligence organisation.

On March 10, 1995, he became aware of a coup attempt against President Heydar Aliyev of Azerbaijan ( prepared by his predecessor Ebulfeyz Elçibey ) with the assistance of the Turkish intelligence and security agencies, and warned Aliyev.

Its mission is to draw upon practical experience of the Turkish National Police ( TNP ) — in areas of terrorism, organized crime, narcotics, administration, intelligence, and investigation — and enhance it with an academic and theoretical foundation at the masters and doctorate level at U. S. universities.

* Turkish journalist Uğur Mumcu of Cumhuriyet had been involved in several high profile and sensitive investigations before his murder in 1993, such as the Kurdish Worker's Party's ties to intelligence, Iranian support for the Kurdish Hezbollah, and even the background of Pope John Paul II's assassin Mehmet Ali Ağca.

Covers the breaking of German codes by RN intelligence, including the Turkish bribe, Zimmermann telegram, and failure at Jutland.

Category: Turkish intelligence agencies

Category: Turkish intelligence agencies

However, some Basmachi groups received support from British and Turkish intelligence services and in order to cut off this outside help, special military detachments of the Red Army masqueraded as Basmachi forces and successfully intercepted supplies.

During the Basmachi Revolt in Central Asia, special military detachments were masqueraded as Basmachi forces and received support from British and Turkish intelligence services.

In the same year, Nielsen acquired Telephia, which measures mobile media, and Bilesim Medya, a Turkish advertising intelligence firm.

The systems would be a generational leap for the Turkish military and intelligence capabilities.

Prior to the Turkish offensive Greek intelligence had revealed the Turkish preparations, but it failed to estimate correctly the size of the Turkish formations and the exact date of the Turkish attack.

The Russian forces and intelligence officers found evidence of the massacres of Christians by the Kurdish and Turkish radicals in 1915.

He reported that his sources indicated that senior Turkish generals were angry at not being told which ally had taken Asgari, and that the identity of this country was a hot debate among " military, intelligence, and police circles.

Her missions included aiding earthquake victims in Volos Greece in 1955 ; supporting Eastern Mediterranean US coastal operations during the 1956 War between Israel and Egypt, and during the Lebanese crisis in 1958 ; participation in the Cuban Quarantine-Blockade in 1962 ; the pursuit of the hijacked Venezuelan freighter SS Anzoategui in 1963 ; coastal operations off the Dominican Republic and evacuation of American citizens during that county's revolution in 1965 ; participation in the search for the USS Scorpion in 1968 ; shadowing the Soviet Mediterranean Fleet during 1970-71, including intelligence gathering on the new Moskva class Soviet Helo-Guided Missile Cruiser-Carriers, and special operations in the Black Sea ; coastal support operations off Crete during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 ; additional Black Sea operations during her extended 1972-75 deployment ; and continuous escort and defense operations with US carrier task forces in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Mediterranean.

The Cuman mercenaries among the Byzantine forces immediately defected to the Turkish side ; and, seeing this, " the Western mercenaries rode off and took no part in the battle.

* took a dim view of any proposals which did not allow for the repatriation of Turkish settlers from the mainland who had emigrated to Cyprus since 1974 ; and

It took a generation for the council to materialize, partly because of papal reluctance, given that a Lutheran demand was the exclusion of the papacy from the Council, and partly because of ongoing political rivalries between France and Germany and the Turkish dangers in the Mediterranean.

Finally, in August 1922, the Turkish army shattered the Greek front, and took Smyrna.

At the same time, Ribbentrop took to shouting at the Turkish Ambassador in Berlin, Mehemet Hamdi Arpag, as part of the effort to win Turkey over as a German ally.

Instead of aiming to gain land from non-Muslims, Orhan took over a Turkish principality, Karesi ( present Balikesir and surrounds ).

Before Turkish hip hop took hold in Turkey, specifically Istanbul and Ankara, it originally grew out of Turkish ethnic enclaves in Germany.

Before Turkish hip hop took root in Germany, it was influenced by American and German hip hop.

The modern Syldavia was formed in 1127 when a tribal chief called Hveghi drove away Turkish conquerors defeated at the battle of Zileheroum and took the name Muskar ruling until 1168.

During the 16th century, Turkish naval attacks destroyed Maó, and the then capital, Ciutadella, before Turkish settlement took place on some of the island.

In 1917, the British defeated Ottoman Turkish forces and took control of Palestine, while France took control of Syria.

The Greek navy under Rear Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis took it over without any casualties from the occupying Turkish Ottoman garrison, who were returned to Anatolia.

The Battle of Vienna ( German: Schlacht am Kahlenberg, Polish: Bitwa pod Wiedniem or Odsiecz Wiedeńska, Turkish: İkinci Viyana Kuşatması, Ukrainian: Віденська відсіч / Viděns ' ka Vidsič ) took place on 11 and 12 September 1683 after Vienna had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire for two months.

But on 12 September 1683, the Austrians and their Polish allies under King Jan Sobieski took advantage of dissent within the Turkish military command and poor disposition of his troops, winning the Battle of Vienna with a devastating flank attack led by Sobieski's Polish cavalry.

For reasons unknown, Maximus left public life and took monastic vows at the monastery of Philippicus in Chrysopolis, a city across the Bosporus from Constantinople ( later known as Scutari, the modern Turkish city of Üsküdar ).

Much of this was due to the Turkish officers in the government, who made the caliph a puppet and took control of the state through assassination and intrigue.

Once Russia took control of most of principal Georgian lands in the 1800s, it again attempted to evict the Turkish garrison from Poti and succeeded in doing so with the help of Georgian irregulars in 1809, but was coerced to return the fortress to the Ottomans in the Treaty of Bucharest ( 1812 ).

Nuri headed the Arab troops who took Damascus for Faisal in the wake of the retreating Turkish forces in 1918.

The island took this name, but today is generally known by the Turks simply as " Burgaz " ( Turkish for " fort ").

The battle took place south of the ancient town Issus, which is close to present-day Turkish town of Iskenderun ( the Turkish equivalent of " Alexandria ", founded by Alexander to commemorate his victory ), on either side of a small river called Pinarus.

I started my tour of them at the Turkish Government Tourist Office, next to Pan American's office on the left as you enter the driveway that leads to the Hilton Hotel.

He and his family were pensioned and one of them aided in the defence of Aegina against the Turks, in 1537, was captured with his family and died in a Turkish dungeon.

The King and Queen were still optimistic – the Byzantine Emperor had told them that the German King Conrad had won a great victory against a Turkish army ( when in fact the German army had been massacred ), and the great troop was still eating well.

In 1983 Turkish Cypriots proclaimed independence unilaterally with only Turkey recognizing them.

Prince Menshikov called the attention of the Turks to the fact that during the Russo-Turkish War ( 1768 – 1774 ), the Russians had occupied the Turkish controlled provinces of Wallachia and Moldavia on the north bank of the Danube River, but he reminded them that pursuant to the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, however, the Russians had returned these " Danubian provinces " to Ottoman control in exchange for the right to protect the Christian sites in the Holy Land.

In 1573, for instance, a Venetian visitor to the Ottoman Empire observed that many of the Turkish natives of Constantinople regularly drink a " certain black water made with opium " that makes them feel good, but to which they become so addicted that if they try to go without they will " quickly die.

Unlike chimpanzees, who ambulate on their knuckles, the Turkish siblings ( ranging from 18 to 34 years old ) walked on their palms, allowing them to preserve the dexterity of their fingers.

Suleiman also conferred upon Ibrahim Pasha the honor of beylerbey of Rumelia, granting Ibrahim authority over all Turkish territories in Europe, as well as command of troops residing within them in times of war.

The largest of them, at Tashkent, is linked with European and Middle Eastern cities by direct flights of Aeroflot, Lufthansa, Transaero, and Turkish Airlines, and with New York and Los Angeles via connecting flights through Moscow.

* March 5 – Italian forces are the first to use airships for a military purpose, using them for reconnaissance west of Tripoli, Libya, behind Turkish lines.

* October 26 – Battle of Giurgiu: Michael the Brave again defeats the Turkish army led by Sinan Pasha, pushing them on the right side of the Danube.

After a number of interviews with Turkish officials, who attempted to dissuade them from travel on foot, the passport from the pasha prevailed.

Cloud, after Napoleon had kept them waiting while he received the Turkish ambassador, the hapless commissioners presented their " petition " to Louis to accept the crown of " Holland ", which he graciously did, while Napoleon looked on avuncularly.

For Turkish youth who didn ’ t identify with Germany as a homeland, localized German hip hop still did not appeal to them nor function as a medium of self-expression.

Although they initially focused on American hip hop by rapping in English to gain Western acceptance, an increase in the groups popularity in Turkey led them to eventually switch to rapping in Turkish.

This oriental hip hop allowed Turkish youngsters to discuss what it meant to them to be a German foreigner and how they still identified as being Turkish.

Turkish hip-hop has allowed the youth to embrace their identity and let others know that although some may see them as exiles in Germany, the youth take pride in themselves, their community, and their heritage.

* Turkish people, people descended from Turks of the Ottoman Empire, now most of them are living in Turkey

Immediately he selected a small mobile force and quickly raced through Sebaste and the mountains of Tephrike to encounter the Turks on the road, forcing them to abandon their plunder and release their prisoners, though a large number of the Turkish troops managed to escape.

In the first two months following the Ottoman Empire ’ s entry into the First World War, the Turkish governor of Jerusalem, Zakey Bey, offered to sell the Moroccan Quarter, which consisted of about 25 houses, to the Jews in order to enlarge the area available to them for prayer.

The Romans called them cyaneae insulae ' blue islands ' and in Turkish they are called Öreke Taşı ' Distaff Rock ' or ' Midwife's Stool '.

Mehmet IV authorized Kara Mustafa Pasha to operate as far as Győr ( the name during Ottoman period: Yanıkkale, German: Raab ) and Komárom ( Turkish: Komaron, German: Komorn ) castles, both in northwestern Hungary, and to besiege them.

However, the Turkish Cypriot side and Turkey rejected them.