“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.