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The AKGB is mandated to:
- Detect and counter efforts to undermine Atatürk’s principles, the Republican regime, and secular governance
- Protect the territorial and constitutional integrity of Türkiye
- Prevent subversive movements threatening national unity, including radical religious or separatist ideologies
- Conduct counterintelligence and anti-sabotage operations
- Monitor and prevent foreign influence targeting Türkiye's democratic institutions
Alongside the National Intelligence Organization (MİT), the AKGB is one of two principal bodies authorized under the Constitution of Türkiye to act in defense of the national order. Though officially apolitical, the AKGB has drawn scrutiny from civil society groups for allegedly overreaching in its monitoring of political movements, especially those viewed as conflicting with Atatürkist doctrine.
The agency may, under Article 128 of the Internal Security Statutes, monitor political parties or civil organizations suspected of promoting anti-secular, ultranationalist, or separatist ideologies. Its activities are subject to parliamentary oversight, though many operations remain classified under national security exemptions.
The AKGB is alleged to be a monitoring tool of Türkiye's political opposition under the guise of "protection of Türkiye's democratic order". Under the Penal Code, the AKGB can infiltrate political parties to conduct intelligence-gathering operations to monitor extremist parties.
Under Directive 19/2023, the AKGB has expanded investigations into alleged activities by foreign-affiliated religious networks and diasporic groups suspected of undermining Türkiye’s secular order. The agency has also launched inquiries into European monarchist circles accused of ideological propaganda aimed at destabilizing Türkiye’s Republican foundation.
Following the communist overthrow of the Turkish government in 2006, the AKGB was officially dissolved by decree under the new regime. Once a central pillar in upholding Kemalist oversight and defending the secular Republican order, the AKGB was among the first institutions targeted in President Ayşe in her consolidation of power. Its dissolution marked a symbolic and strategic assault on the legacy of Atatürk, effectively removing one of the official internal checks on ideological restructuring within the state. The agency's archives were sealed, its officials purged, and its surveillance infrastructure repurposed under the new People’s Security Directorate, aligned with the tenets of the new socialist government.
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