“Squawk” is a codeword for the Esadiye
Cyber Intelligence Agency (ECIA), which is a Secret Cyber Intelligence Program commissioned by the Turkish Government from 2001 onwards. Information on the ECIA is considered to be Secret, hence why
the Agency is not well known to the public. Despite this, the ECIA is rumored to carry out various Cyber Intelligence Missions in Turkey, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East. It is also thought to carry out Cyber Intelligence of certain individuals that the Government of the Republic of Turkey might find of particular interest, especially individuals within the watch-list of the Media and Communications branch of the Government.
A document leaked to the public in 2017 detailed that the ECIA carried out multiple cases of Cyber Hacks aimed at users on multiple social media websites in Turkey, including Reddit,
Imgur, Discord and
Quora.
The Esadiye
Cyber Intelligence Agency (ECIA) which is codenamed “Squawk”, is rumored to carry out various national and international Cyber Intelligence
Missions aimed at individuals on the watch-list of Turkey’s Media and
Communications branch.
