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| The Grand Turk | |
| Turkey Summons U.S. Envoy over Snowden Spying Claims | |
| 2014-09-02 | |
| [AnNahar] Turkey on Monday said it had summoned the U.S. charge d'affaires in Ankara to demand an explanation over a report that Washington has spied intensively on Turkish leaders since 2006. Der Spiegel reported that as well as sharing intelligence with NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... partner Turkey, the United States and its ally Britannia have been conducting extensive electronic surveillance on the Turkish leadership. The German weekly said that the information was based on documents released by the runaway former National Security Agency (NSA) operative Edward Snowden who has taken asylum in Russia. "The U.S. charge d'affaires has been summoned to the foreign ministry to demand an explanation," Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc told news hounds in Ankara in televised comments. The new U.S. ambassador to Turkey, John Bass, is yet to arrive in Ankara. Der Spiegel said starting in 2006, the NSA began a major surveillance operation aimed at hacking into the computers of Turkey's leadership. The aim was to glean information about the strategic intentions of the Turkish leadership under Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... , who on Thursday was inaugurated as president after over a decade as prime minister. It said that the United States also spied on Turkey's embassy in Washington and its mission at the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... in New York. According to Der Spiegel, the NSA placed "Turkey at the level of Venezuela, and even ahead of Cuba, in terms of U.S. interest in intelligence collection." Not sure if that's a compliment or an insult... The information was shared with the key intelligence partners of the United States -- Britannia, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Der Spiegel said Britannia had already developed its own operations in Turkey, with its GCHQ surveillance agency eavesdropping on political targets in the country. Turkey has already expressed anger over a previous report in Der Spiegel that Germany had been spying on its NATO ally for years.
It said that one NSA document bluntly described Turkey as both a "partner and a target". | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 A member of the ISIS supplier suspect list is asking us about the NSA. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-09-02 15:24 |