LONDON

Richard Moore, the head of the British foreign intelligence agency MI6, congratulated Ibrahim Kalin on his appointment as new head of Türkiye's intel agency MIT.

In a tweet in Turkish, Moore said: "Congratulations to my old friend Ibrahim Kalin on his appointment as the head of MIT. I look forward to working together. Best wishes."

He also tagged Kalin in the tweet.

Referring to a previous incident where he mistakenly tagged a fake Twitter handle while congratulating Hakan Fidan for becoming the Turkish foreign minister, Moore added a note to his post, stating: "Believing this is not a parody Twitter account."

Previously, Richard Moore congratulated Fidan in a Turkish post on Twitter, saying, "I wish my friend and former colleague success in his new position. Congratulations, minister!"

In his message, Moore inadvertently tagged a parody account opened under the name Fidan.

After receiving numerous responses from Twitter users warning him, Moore shared another message with a smiling emoji: "Oh dear, how embarrassing! But even if the account is a parody, my good wishes are real!"

Moore served as the British ambassador to Türkiye from 2014 to 2017 and he is fluent in Turkish.​​​​​​​