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In this study, in the light of British secret documents; The organization and activities of the German Secret Service in Turkey during the Second World War, are discussed. During the writing process of the article, mainly as a primary source information; the British National Archives documents and the official history books of the British Foreign and Domestic Intelligence Services were used. In addition to this, memoirs describing the period and English newspapers and magazines were also handled as secondary sources. According to archival documents, the British Secret Intelligence Service identified the German Secret Service operating under the mask of a commercial company in Turkey during the Second World World War, including all its staffs and their fields of activity. Subsequently, the British Secret Intelligence Service submitted the report, which includes the details of the German espionage in Turkey, Ambassador Hughe Montgomery Knathbull-Hugessen in 1944. For the first time, thanks to this study, during the Second World War the British Secret Intelligence Service’s capabilities in Turkey of the German secret service were revealed to the news collection activities. By using the historical methodology, particularly the archive documents of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it has been examined how UK closely followed and focussed its interests in Turkey. Additionally, within the context of security strategies; it has been underlined how human, signal and communications intelligence could be used as a foreign policy tool.

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