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

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(MIT).

Education and early life

He was born in Adana in 1944 to a family of Uzbek refugees, and named after

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. He was accepted into the Turkish War College from which he and his fellow students were expelled following the failed coup d'état in 1963. Former school principal Colonel

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was identified as one of the individuals involved in plotting the coup. He later pursued a career as a journalist at the nationalist newspaper ''Yeni Istanbul.'' Between 1964 and 1965, he supported the youth branch of the

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(CKMP) of

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. He then worked for the

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before being recruited to the MIT by its then president

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. During his time there, he became close to Ruzi Nazar about whom he later wrote a book. In 1974, he resigned from the MIT and joined the

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. He lived in Germany, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan and served as an advisor to Turkish Presidents

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and

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Legal prosecution

In 2017, he was arrested and tried alongside another MIT officer for attempting to orchestrate the latter's escape following 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 connections to the

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, accused of involvement in the coup attempt of 2016, along with an additional 13 years for espionage. He is imprisoned in Sincan prison where he is represented by his daughter, who serves as his lawyer.

References

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