Hakan Fidan

Hakan Fidan (2013)

Hakan Fidan (* 1968 in Ankara ) is a Turkish soldier, diplomat and since May 2010 the head of the Turkish intelligence service Millî İstihbarat Teşkilâtı (MİT).

Career

For fifteen years, from 1986 to 2001, he served as a soldier in the Turkish army , in the end as a non-commissioned officer. He was briefly stationed with the NATO Rapid Reaction Force in Germany . He completed two degrees, Management from the University of Maryland and a Masters Degree in Political Science from Bilkent University with a PhD. From 2003 to 2007 he was Head of State Development Aid . In November 2007 he was appointed Deputy Undersecretary in Erdoğan's Prime Ministerial Office. From May 2010 he was the head of the Turkish domestic intelligence service. Fidan immediately restructured the agency, made it even more powerful by incorporating the military intelligence service into the MİT. On February 7, 2015, he resigned from this position to run for the AKP in the elections to the Turkish parliament . On March 9, 2015, he revoked his candidacy and was returned to his previous post.

Controversy

Shortly after his appointment as head of the MİT, the Israeli secret service Mossad accused him of having disclosed sensitive information from the American alliance partner, the CIA, to Iran.

In 2009, Fidan became Prime Minister Erdoğan's special envoy to the secret peace negotiations with the armed Kurdish Workers' Party PKK in Oslo and took part in a conversation with Abdullah Öcalan .

Web links

Seymour Hersh : "The Red Line and the Rat Line" , London Review of Books , April 6, 2014

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Stefan Aust , Dirk Laabs : Erdogan's strange friend , Die Welt , July 31, 2016
↑ Hakan Fidan kimdir? Özgeçmişinde neler var? İşte ENGENç MİT Başkanı'nın özgeçmişi , Vatan , February 11, 2012
↑ Orhan Coskun: Turkish spymaster Fidan quits to contest parliamentary election: ... In: US ( reuters.com [accessed August 23, 2018]).
↑ Profile: Turkey's 'secret-keeper' Hakan Fidan , Al Jazeera , March 22, 2013
↑ Investigation of Turkish Intelligence head won't proceed, says prosecutor , Hurriyet , March 22, 2013

personal data
SURNAME	Fidan, Hakan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Turkish diplomat and head of the Turkish domestic secret service MİT
DATE OF BIRTH	1968
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ankara

[welt157408561-1] Stefan Aust , Dirk Laabs : Erdogan's strange friend , Die Welt , July 31, 2016

[2] Hakan Fidan kimdir? Özgeçmişinde neler var? İşte ENGENç MİT Başkanı'nın özgeçmişi , Vatan , February 11, 2012

[3] Orhan Coskun: Turkish spymaster Fidan quits to contest parliamentary election: ... In: US ( reuters.com [accessed August 23, 2018]).

[4] Profile: Turkey's 'secret-keeper' Hakan Fidan , Al Jazeera , March 22, 2013

[5] Investigation of Turkish Intelligence head won't proceed, says prosecutor , Hurriyet , March 22, 2013