According to the French Bulletin "Intelligenсe online"in the article"Erdogan relies on private militaries», taking control of the army and intelligence agencies after the coup attempt 15 July 2016 of the year, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also intends to seize the initiative outside the country. He is counting on a major offensive in Syria, which began 23 August under the name "Shield of the Euphrates", to return to the epicenter of events again. Speaking to former Special Operations Forces General Adnan Tanriverdi (Adnan Tanriverdi), the president also expects to strengthen his army.
According to the French newsletter, almost all high-ranking Turkish military, especially those of them, who were involved in the fight against the "Islamic State" and who were constantly in interaction with the general staffs of Western countries, were gradually replaced after the coup attempt 15 July. Their elimination worries Ankara's partners in the anti-Islamist coalition. Furthermore, this purge took place before the Turkish invasion of Syria, which, under the guise of the slogan about the capture of border crossings, used by IG, actually aims to capture cities, held by Kurds from the Kurdistan Democratic Union Party. Although Erdogan's obedient Chief of the Turkish General Staff Hulusi Akar retained his post, all his subordinates were replaced.
An important circumstance, which, but, went almost unnoticed, was an invitation to the President of Turkey 16 August of the country's largest owner of private military companies, Adnan Tanriverdi. This former special forces general, expelled from the army because, that his superiors thought he was too religious, should control the process of restructuring the Turkish army, primarily by including all officers, who, like him, were dismissed from the military for being too strongly Muslim. AT 2012 Tanriverdi created the first Turkish private military company SADAT. Thanks to her Tanriverdi, which is considered close to Erdogan, a man for many years, wants to "help the Arab world rise to that level among the great powers, which suits him", – it follows from the book he wrote.
Therefore SADAT only works in those countries, in which the majority of the Muslim population. Since the start of the Syrian crisis in 2011 year, this PMC was regularly accused by the opposition of training militants from among the Syrian refugees, who were on the territory of Turkey. SADAT also tried to infiltrate Libya and Pakistan. According to the sources of the bulletin in Ankara, Tanriverdi made several visits to the General Staff before the coup in order to, to get support from the military in the issue of training foreign armed formations, and in particular on the issue of participation in the Islamic Anti-Terrorist Coalition, which the Minister of Defense of Saudi Arabia, Muhammad bin Salman, has been trying to create for several months. In the Gulf region, SADAT has been present for some time with the help of the Saudi company Al Aquid Trading, which is headed by a former Saudi Air Force intelligence officer, Colonel Ghazi Jiza al-Harbi. Tanriverdi's main interlocutor in the Turkish General Staff was General Salih Ulusoy (Salih Ulusoy), who was responsible in the General Staff for strategic planning, however, currently imprisoned in the coup case 15 July.
The Turkish army began operations in Syria with significantly weakened intelligence capabilities, finally undermined after 15 July. One side, director of the military intelligence service Mustafa Ozsoy (Mustafa Ozsoy) has been behind bars for several weeks. On the other hand, Turkish intelligence MIT, also affected by events, which she could not predict, still suffering from "summer purges". Fragmented like never before, service, subordinate to Hakan Filan (Hakan Fidan), trying to keep the honor of the uniform in the eyes of Erdogan: the secret service is trying to establish a dialogue with its Syrian counterparts, primarily with the powerful intelligence of the Syrian Air Force.
