A local Turkish national employed there, in Germany since 1995 due to Berlin's family reunification policy, worked as their asset on the ground, researching Kurdish activists and critics of Ankara and passing her reports up to MIT. She also had a source inside the Cologne police feeding her internal law enforcement information for years. When Germany searched her home, she claimed diplomatic immunity. The court rejected it (womp womp).
A "NATO ally" is running an espionage and targeting operation out of its consulate in another NATO ally. German courts just confirmed that Turkey's intelligence service MIT runs a full station inside its consulate in Hürth, near Cologne, staffed by career officers. A local Turkish national employed there, in Germany since 1995 due to Berlin's family reunification policy, worked as their asset on the ground, researching Kurdish activists and critics of Ankara and passing her reports up to MIT. She also had a source inside the Cologne police feeding her internal law enforcement information for years. When Germany searched her home, she claimed diplomatic immunity. The court rejected it (womp womp).
