Behind all of the smoke and mirrors for all these years, the BLUF is Israel does not want Turkiye to have the F35 Stealth fighter.

On Monday ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu begged Dummkopf Trumpf on "Fox & Fiends" not to give this technology to a Muslim country opposed to the Gaza genocide (+75,000 Muslims massacred by the IDF). Netanyahu did not mention the Russian SAM controversy.

Moreover, Turkish strongman Tayyip Erdogan said he had done some [unpublicized] favors for the Trumpf junta during the past several years in the Middle East and expects payback.

Those favors were probably allowing Russian supplies into Iran during the illegal war and other things, probably intelligence-related. The MIT is quite competent and has access to sources A to Z, from Palestinian resistance fighters to Syrian guerillas, Kurdish groups, Turkic peoples in the Middle East and Central Asia, and North African tribes.

French President Macron thanked Erdogan for providing valuable intelligence before the Paris 2024 Olympiad and the Surete made some arrests ahead of the games.

Moreover, US companies want this lucrative F35 contract with Turkiye to go through.

For decades, the US and Turkiye have had a special organization called the Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC) for contracts and NATO industrial standards compliance.

Turkish taxi drivers to this day still refer to ODC by its 1960s name: "JUSMAG."

I forgot to mention South Korean KCIA (now NIS) and the Turkish MIT also have a strong relationship built after the Korean War. The Turks receive info from Ukraine, their NATO partners, and the ROK -- and vice versa.

From my experience, the top intelligence agencies in the Middle East are the MIT and Jordan's British-trained mukhabarat.

I discounted the heavily politicized Israeli intelligence reports and did just fine without them for 27 years.

Overall, in the Middle East US SIGINT was the best source for intelligence backed up by IMINT from the NRO.