The decrees also dismissed 928 civilian and military staffers, while reinstating another 60 civil servants to their former posts. The ranks of 10 retired brigadier generals accused of endangering national security were annulled and their retirement benefits canceled.
Erdogan consolidates power over intelligence servicesA pair of new emergency decrees issued Thursday put Turkey’s intelligence service under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is now the chairman of the National Intelligence Coordination Council, which oversees all intelligence matters. The move shields the intelligence agency from scrutiny as the decrees stipulate that any investigation into the performance of the intelligence chief will have to be approved by the president.
The decrees also dismissed 928 civilian and military staffers, while reinstating another 60 civil servants to their former posts. The ranks of 10 retired brigadier generals accused of endangering national security were annulled and their retirement benefits canceled.
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