What that figure amounts to is one informant for every 500 Turks in Germany, reports the German newspaper Die Welt.
Not even the Stasi, the once feared legendary East German secret police, managed to run a network inside the German Federal Republic this extensive, Deutsche Welle reports.
"This is no longer about an agency acquiring intelligence, but increasing performing repression," Erich Schmidt-Eenboom said. "Even the Stasi did not succeed in building up such a large army of agents in the federal republic."
MIT agents exist in Germany to put massive pressure on Turks, who may have valuable information or connections. There are approximately 3 million Turks living in Germany.
Green Party Member of Parliament (MP) Hans-Christian Ströbele noted there was an "unbelievable" amount of "secret activities" perpetrated by MIT.