Turkish Intelligence MIT and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Intend to Take Control of the Islamization of Europe
Turkish opposition journalist Abdullah Bozkurt has published an article on the Stockholm-based Nordic Monitor portal he founded, revealing plans by Turkish intelligence to expand its spy network in Europe.
“Turkish intelligence (Milli İstihbarat Teşkilatı, MIT) uses religious figures as cover to place its agents in foreign countries,” writes Bozkurt, an ardent supporter of the recently deceased US-based cleric Fethullah Gülen, whom Turkish President Erdoğan accused of organizing the failed coup in 2016.
“Since Turkish imams can easily operate in immigrant communities and have direct access to local organizations and municipalities, this situation represents a great opportunity for Turkish intelligence not only to gather information but also to identify potential agents in these communities.
The information collected enables Turkish intelligence to identify vulnerabilities in local communities that can be used to influence national policy in favor of the Turkish government. In addition, it creates a network of connections that can be mobilized if necessary to start protests and rallies in foreign countries,” Bozkurt points out.
The strategy for expanding MIT’s agent networks is outlined, as the Turkish oppositionist notes, “in the strategic plan of the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) for 2024-2028, which includes specific targets, recommended tactics, and proposed solutions to address the identified shortcomings.”
According to this document, the Turkish intelligence services have been given the ambitious goal of expanding the network clientele of Diyanet, which has 61 branches in 38 countries, from 1.9 million people to 12 million.
“The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, through its religious wing, has set itself the goal of reaching almost 12 million people abroad through influence operations, using mosques under Turkish control in Europe and North America to expand its ideological and political influence,” Bozkurt notes.
The main target of Turkish intelligence expansion is Europe.
Across the decrepit civilization of the Old World, there is a Turkish network of hundreds of mosques, built with Turkish funds and under the unified management of the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB). There are mosques and DITIB infrastructure in almost every significant German city, from Berlin to Aachen. Today, there are such mosques in almost every country in the European Union. Prayers and sermons in these mosques are usually conducted in Turkish or in the dominant language of a particular community. The largest of these mosques were opened personally by Turkish President Erdogan.
Turkey’s expansion into Europe includes more than just a religious component. Deutschlandfunk reports on a new political association founded in January 2024 by a group of German citizens of Turkish origin under the acronym DAVA (Demokratische Allianz für Vielfalt und Aufbruch, “Democratic Alliance for Diversity and Awakening”), which positions itself as “a new political center for many citizens who are not represented by existing parties.” In an effort to fill the “political vacuum” they see in the country, the alliance claims to be “the voice of the Turkish community, the Muslim community, and minorities.” According to a number of expert assessments, DAVA is, as we wrote, a project of the ruling Justice and Development Party in Turkey, ready to make a name for itself in European elections at any level. The leaders of the new movement see both ethnic Turks with German citizenship (several million people) and recently arrived migrants as an important target audience, designating the “fight against anti-Muslim racism” as one of the priorities. According to German media, the simplified procedure for granting citizenship, which is planned to be introduced in April, may affect about one and a half million more Turks living in Germany who do not yet have it.
At the end of last year, the former head of the German counterintelligence agency Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV) Hans-Georg Maassen said in an interview with the Austrian television channel FPÖ TV that Europe is facing an unprecedented crisis due to mass immigration and that Islam is quite ready to conquer Europe. “Europeans will succumb to Islam,” Maassen noted, stating that “the end result will be the gradual destruction of our European culture.”
Hans-Georg Maassen believes that European politicians actively allow mass immigration because they “want a different population… The more diverse the population, the less able it is to express its position… The more politicians attract immigrants from other countries at their own discretion and grant them citizenship, the more this influences the election results. These migrants then vote differently from the locals. Mass immigration is the foreign colonization of our land.” According to the former head of German counterintelligence, “Countries like Germany and Austria have the tools necessary to stop immigration, but they make a conscious choice not to do so.”
Turkey also has a well-organized fighting force in Europe, capable of replacing the police structures of European countries if necessary and organizing the maintenance of law and order if the existing European institutions for one reason or another cease to cope with their duties. We are talking about the pan-Turkic ultra-right movement “Grey Wolves”.
“A ramified network of mosques united by a single administration, together with well-armed units of a nationalist movement [“Grey Wolves”] is quite capable, in the conditions of the global geopolitical crisis in Europe, of laying claim to gradually concentrating power in its hands at all levels at least in individual countries, primarily in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, where the positions of DITIB and Turkish communities are extremely strong. And therefore, to create serious competition for the Anglo-Saxon or any other project of a European protectorate, if such a project ever begins to be implemented.
In the fall of 2020, France, albeit belatedly, included the Grey Wolves group in the list of banned groups.
The German Bundestag has long been calling for a ban on the activities of the Grey Wolves, which are banned in many countries and whose numbers have reached 11,000 in the country, but the German intelligence services are against such a decision. In November 2023, the Bundestag again called for a ban on this group, but the German intelligence services refused to do so, citing certain legal obstacles.
Against the backdrop of the creeping Islamization of Europe, Turkish President Erdogan intends to lead this trend by creating vast networks of madrassas, political parties, and militant groups united by one goal: to turn the Old World into a province of the resurgent Ottoman Empire.
According to the strategic plan of the Turkish state Presidency of Religious Affairs, it is planned to increase the number of Turkish clientele in European countries sixfold in the coming years. This means that the Turkish intelligence service MIT and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which has recently been headed by former MIT Director Hakan Fidan, intend to take full control of the process of Islamization of Europe.
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