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Summer 2003 United States-Turkish Intelligence Liaison Since World War
II Abstract This article analyzes many specific examples of intelligence liaison between the United States and Turkey since World War II. U.S. intelligence monitoring stations in Turkey provided the United States with valuable data about the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The U-2 spy plane incident also involved Turkish intelligence liaison. During the 1990s, Turkey permitted the United States aircraft enforcing the no-fly zone protecting the Iraqi Kurds from Saddam Hussein to be based in southeast Turkey. Surreptitious links such as gladio or the stay-behind organization might have had unintended consequences involving domestic Turkish politics, Mehmet Ali Agca’s attempt to assassinate the Pope, the Kurds, and the Susurluk scandal in 1996. |
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