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** Erdoğan's Most Eminent Men: Turkey's New Spymasters ([link removed])
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by Burak Bekdil • July 21, 2023 at 5:00 am
* Turkey's two key appointments are new foreign minister and former intelligence chief, Hakan Fidan; and the newly-appointed intelligence chief, Ibrahim Kalın, also an Erdoğan confidant.
* Both men have interesting and impressive careers. How both of them have become the only two people who make policy and share power with Erdoğan is illuminating, especially where their careers intersected under the president.
* During that meeting, Fidan told the others that if they decided to go to war with Syria he could easily arrange a false flag operation: "Easy for me. I can send four men into Syria, they send eight missiles [into Turkish soil], and there you go."
* The appointments mark formalizing executive cabinet jobs for two most important men in Erdoğan's most inner circle.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's two key appointments are new foreign minister and former intelligence chief, Hakan Fidan; and the newly-appointed intelligence chief, Ibrahim Kalın, also an Erdoğan confidant. Pictured: Erdoğan (R) with his new Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan (L) at Cankaya Palace on June 3, 2023. (Photo by Adem Altan/AFP via Getty Images)

As Turkey's post-election dust is settling down, the international community has turned its attention to two key appointments announced by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who on May 28 won his 17^th election victory in 21 years, and entered his third decade in power.

Turkey's two key appointments are new foreign minister and former intelligence chief, Hakan Fidan; and the newly-appointed intelligence chief, Ibrahim Kalın, also an Erdoğan confidant.

Both men have interesting and impressive careers. How both of them have become the only two people who make policy and share power with Erdoğan is illuminating, especially where their careers intersected under the president.

The enigmatic Hakan Fidan

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