Confidential documents have revealed that Turkey’s intelligence agency (Milli İstihbarat Teşkilatı, MIT) has for some time been aware of the activities of a senior Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) leader operating within Turkey and managing the group’s smuggling network in Greece. An intelligence note shared by MIT with the Security Directorate General (Emniyet) on May 13, 2023 and obtained by Nordic Monitor showed that Barzan Hasan Ibrahim Albo-Badri, a cousin of the late ISIS leader and caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, relocated from Iraq to Turkey to assist in directing the terrorist organization’s operations within and through Turkey. The...