Turkey-born becomes Germany’s top intelligence official

Baku. 22 January. REPORT.AZ/ A lawyer of Turkish descent Sinan Selen was appointed as the Vice President of Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), becoming the country’s first official with an immigrant background in intelligence services, Report informs citing the THMHaber.

Born in Istanbul and a graduate of Köln University’s faculty of law, Sinan Selen’s appointment was announced on the BfV site on Monday.

Selen has been involved with German security services institutions since 2000, serving as head investigator in the case of the 2006 German train bombing attempts and later joining the Interior Ministry as a specialist on counterterrorism measures for federal security agencies.

In 2011, he was appointed as the Head of Counterterrorism Task Force of the Interior Ministry, where he served for more than five years.