The August 1 major exchange of prisoners between Russia and the US and allies was conducted on the tarmac at Ankara Airport under the coordination of the Turkish National Intelligence Agency (MIT). ‘Our organisation has undertaken a major mediation role in this exchange operation, which is the most comprehensive of the recent period,’ the intelligence agency said in a statement. In further comments, MIT said it “conducted the most extensive prisoner exchange operation of recent times,” exchanging 26 different people held in seven different countries: the United States, Germany, Poland, Sloveni…
