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Dışişleri Bakanlığı Ministry of Foreign Affairs AUTHENTIC COMMUNIQUE OF THE OFFICE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS Security Clearance: Secure and Encrypted ŞİFRELEME KORUMASI: KAPLUĞA [Recipient]: Office of the Chief of Staff < Odinson > [Sender]: Embassy of Türkiye, Washington D.C.<...

"Thank you for taking the call President Lafleur." Ayşe responded. "We plan to launch our operation in a week from now, and I will be sure to keep you abreast of any developments that may be of importance to you." Sümeyye handed her a note, which Ayşe read quickly before responding. "I will...

Gripping the receiver with her left hand, Ayşe softly leaned her head against her knuckles. "I understand the skepticism that some may show." She paused, handing the general a note she had scribbled on to give her the timeline. She continued. "I wish to stress that this was not a decision that I...

HOUSE OF OSMAN Osmanoğlu family is a family belonging to the historical House of Osman, which was the ruling house of the Ottoman Empire from c. 1299 until the abolition of the Ottoman sultanate in 1922, and the Ottoman Caliphate from 1517 until the abolition of the caliphate in 1924. In 1924...

Devlet Bahçeli, the former Turkish prime minister whose ultranationalist government led the country into a catastrophic war and international occupation, was rushed to a state hospital this week from the high-security prison where he is serving a life sentence. The officials would not describe...

Ayşe's hands trembled a little as she held the receiver tightly. It wasn't until she heard Lafleur's voice that she softened her grip. "I appreciate the confidence your Secretary of State has put in our relationship, and I hope that we will live up to that confidence," Ayşe said with a pause...

More than 900 public servants have been dismissed by the Turkish government, while 43 were arrested as part of what public prosecutors described as an investigation into alleged acts of treason and subversion. A statement from prosecutors said the arrests were based on what they described as...

SECRET The highway east of Erzurum had become noticeably slower by late afternoon. What should have been a routine journey across eastern Anatolia had settled into a patient crawl as civilian traffic compressed into a single lane. Freight trucks, buses, and family cars stretched for kilometers...

SECRET In a matter of hours the PKK began setting up in their respective positions, preparing to resist the Turkish invasion. Kurdish rebels were divided into company-sized elements at the start of the month. Kurdish forces numbered only eight thousand strong, but they knew the terrain, had...

By midmorning, the last pallet was off the last Antonov. The firefighting teams, their firetrucks, and ATVs fell in under Australian tasking. The convoys were rolling out through the wire toward Churchill and Bunyip and the Prom, following Victoria Police escorts on highways that all looked the...

"To you as well." The Ambassador and his team left the room as prompted and returned back to the Embassy to report back to Ankara their conversations with the Australians. Owen

Owen

SECRET The trains came first. Flatcars rolled into the railhead at Silopi through the night, tank after tank chained down under tarpaulins that did nothing to disguise their shape, and by morning the yard was a forest of gun barrels pointed at a sky. Ramps went down. Engines that had sat cold...

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) vowed on Sunday to resist any Turkish military incursion into northern Iraq, warning that an invasion would ignite a wider conflict and accusing Ankara of using counterterrorism as a justification for what it described as an assault on Kurdish communities. In...

Türkiye moved a step closer to a military intervention in northern Iraq on Thursday after Parliament voted 533 to 67 to authorize Prime Minister Çiller's government to use military force against bases belonging to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, clearing the final political hurdle before...

Amberin Zaman raised her hand. "Minister Rosseau, you began by announcing that Canada will move to outlaw the PKK and affiliated organizations, something Türkiye has long requested from many of its international partners. However, moments later you strongly criticized Türkiye's military response...

OPERATION TIGRIS HAMMER Security Classification: TOP SECRET SITUATION REPORT OVERVIEW Following the completion of Tigris Shield's and continued PKK terror attacks in Izmir and Ankara, the Prime Minister has authorized the ground component of the campaign against PKK infrastructure and...

SECRET The secure communications center sat one floor below the Prime Ministry. Three officers worked the consoles. Captain Elçin Sangu occupied the center position. A headset rested over her dark hair. One officer monitored the satellite link. The other watched the encryption terminal. The...

The convoy left the Çankaya compound at six. Three black Range Rovers and two motorcycle outriders, curtains drawn on the middle car, Kaan sat across from her with a leather folder he had not opened once during the drive. Ayşe watched Ankara go by in strips, a shuttered pharmacy, a school with...

ENCRYPTED MESSAGING SOFTWARE ENCRYPTED MESSAGE PRIVATE & SECRET ** START MESSAGE ** START MESSAGE ** START MESSAGE ** URGENCY: PRIORITY EMERGENCY - IMMEDIATE - PRIORITY TO: CIB, PKK Liaison Office Bangkok ( Bossza007 ) FROM: FIELD OFFICE, ERBIL - SYRINGE TURKISH FORCES MOBILIZING...