COMMENTARY — Erdoğan helps drug runner, racketeer who works with Turkey’s intel agency
By Abdullah Bozkurt
A long-time drug runner and jihadist trafficker who is under permanent contract with Turkey’s MİT intelligence agency (National Intelligence Organization, or Milli...
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