Enver Altaylı (born 1944) is a Turkish academic, writer and former secret agent for the Turkish

National Intelligence Organization The National Intelligence Organization ( tr, Millî İstihbarat Teşkilatı, MİT) is the state intelligence agency of Turkey. Established in 1965 to replace National Security Service, its aim is to gather information about the current and po ...

(MIT).

Education and early life

He was born into a family of Uzbek refugees in Ankara in 1944. He was named Enver after

Enver Pasha İsmail Enver, better known as Enver Pasha ( ota, اسماعیل انور پاشا; tr, İsmail Enver Paşa; 22 November 1881 – 4 August 1922) was an Ottoman military officer, revolutionary, and convicted war criminal who formed one-third ...

. He entered the Turkish War College from which he was expelled with his fellow students after the failed coup d'état in 1963. The former schools principal Colonel was identified as one of the coup plotters. He then unsuccessfully pursued a career as a journalist at the nationalist newspaper ''Yeni Istanbul.'' Between 1964 and 1965 he supported the youth branch of the

Republican Villagers Nation Party The Republican Villagers Nation Party ( tr, Cumhuriyetçi Köylü Millet Partisi, CKMP), alternatively translated Republican Peasants' Nation Party, was a former political party in Turkey. Fusions The party was founded after the fusion of two s ...

(CKMP) of

Alparslan Türkeş Alparslan Türkeş (; 25 November 1917 – 4 April 1997) was a Turkish politician, who was the founder and president of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and the Grey Wolves ''(Ülkü Ocakları)''. He represented the far-right of the Turkish ...

. He then became employed by the

Institute for Research on Turkish Culture The Institute for Research on Turkish Culture (TKAE) is an institution established in 1961. Its research focused on the Turkic world and counted with the support of both the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Intelligence Organiz ...

. From there he was recruited to the MIT by its then president Fuat Doğu. He became close to

Ruzi Nazar Ruzi Nazar (1 January 1917 – 30 April 2015) was an Uzbek nationalist who spent most of his adult career working for the CIA against the Soviet Union. He was born in Soviet Central Asia at the time of the Russian Revolution. After joining the ...

about whom he wrote a book. He resigned from the MIT in 1974 and joined the

Nationalist Movement Party The Nationalist Movement Party (alternatively translated as Nationalist Action Party; tr, Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi, MHP) is a Turkish far-right and ultranationalist political party. The group is often described as neo-fascist, and has been ...

. He travelled abroad, to Germany, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan and also became an advisor to the Turkish presidents

Süleyman Demirel Süleyman Sami Demirel (; 1 November 1924 – 17 June 2015) was a Turkish people, Turkish politician, engineer, and statesman who served as the List of Presidents of Turkey, 9th President of Turkey from 1993 to 2000. He previously served as the ...

and

Turgut Özal Halil Turgut Özal (; 13 October 192717 April 1993) was a Turkish politician, who served as the 8th President of Turkey from 1989 to 1993. He previously served as the 26th Prime Minister of Turkey from 1983 to 1989 as the leader of the Mothe ...

Legal prosecution

He was arrested in 2017 and tried together with another MIT officer for having attempted to plan the flight of the latter after his dismissal from public service in the purges in the aftermath of the coup d'état attempt of 2016. In 2021 he was sentenced to ten years imprisonment for terrorism due to his alleged links to the

Gülen Movement The Gülen movement ( tr, Gülen hareketi), referred to by its participants as Hizmet ("service") or Cemaat ("community") and since 2016 by the Government of Turkey as FETÖ ("Fethullahist Terrorist Organisation" or, more commonly, "Fethullah T ...

which is accused of having been involved in the coup attempt of 2016 plus an additional 13 years for espionage. He has a daughter which is also his lawyer and imprisoned in Sincan prison in Ankara.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Altayli, Enver 1944 births Politicians from Ankara Nationalist Movement Party politicians Army War College (Turkey) alumni Turkish prisoners and detainees Living people People of the National Intelligence Organization (Turkey)