A “Tailor of Ankara”?

Former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Eric Edelman made it public that he received a handwritten denouncement letter in 2004 that explained the plans of junta activities and coup d’etats in armed forces.

According to the information Edelman gave to Asli Aydintasbas from Milliyet Journal of Turkey, this letter had been brought to them by “an ambassador resource.” The document had been inspected and thought to be a kind of “forged job!”

Interesting! That is, even if it is “fake,” there is a resource whose mission is to convey some information to an ambassador. As you know, we call this “espionage,” or in a lighter expression, “to work for foreign states,” which is usually assumed to be a “crime” and an activity tracked by the Turkish government.

I wonder whether the NIO (National Intelligence Organization) is aware of such a resource, or knows who it is? And of course, I wonder this as well: Were these fake documents prepared by other people and conveyed to the resource? Since they know that the “resource” is working for U.S. ambassadorship, we can conclude that they have an interesting intelligence network. Who were those people? How could they gather such information?

Both the NIO and the Turkish Police Department must be wondering as much as I am!

Of course, another possibility is the Ankara version of “The Tailor of Panama,” like Harry the tailor of Panama who told fiction stories instead of conveying information to the English spy in the novel by John le Carré!

If this possibility is a reality, we should not question where all of that money from U.S. taxpayers goes anymore!