The Turkish secret service, MIT, also pursues opposition members abroad and has built up a broad network of agents. A Kurd living in southern Kurdistan discovered a GPS transmitter in a pair of jeans he bought online from Turkey.
It is common knowledge that the Turkish secret service also persecutes opposition members abroad and carries out deadly attacks, especially in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). The MIT works closely with Parastin, the intelligence organisation in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq) and has built up a broad network of agents and informants. Since September 2021, five Kurdish opposition figures from Turkey have been murdered in targeted assassinations, including Jineolojî researcher Nagihan Akarsel.
The RojNews agency reported that a GPS transmitter was discovered in the clothing of a Kurdish patriot, revealing a new method for spying on civilians in southern Kurdistan.
The person concerned lives in southern Kurdistan due to political persecution in Turkey and wants to remain anonymous for security reasons. According to him, relatives living in northern Kurdistan sent him various items of clothing via the online mail order company Trendyol. He discovered the tracking device in a pair of jeans. "My family bought the clothes through the online mail-order company Trendyol, which is under state control. When the package arrived, I could feel a hard object inside a pair of trousers. I undid the seam and found a hidden GPS."
