Turkey’s the National Intelligence Organization re-defined 10 priority areas of global crisis regions affecting the fate of the international community.
Friday, 20 March 2009 15:19
Turkey’s the National Intelligence Organization re-defined 10 priority areas of global crisis regions affecting the fate of the international community.
Turkey’s the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) re-defined 10 priority areas of global crisis regions affecting the fate of the international community.
Turkish National Intelligence Organization shifts its focus to foreign intelligence. 10 critical areas that affecting the fate of the international community will be closely watched on “the economic, political, cultural and demographic aspects.”
MIT, according to the current changes in the global balance, re-defined its the priority areas. MIT, which continues to re-design its administrative structure, defined 10 critical areas affecting the fate of the international community. Caucasus, the Balkans, Asia-Pacific axis, the Middle East, Mediterranean, Aegean, Black Sea, Africa, the Red-Aden Gulf, the Caspian Basin will be closely watched on “the economic, political, cultural and demographic aspects.”
For this purpose, other than English, Arabic, Serbian, Armenian, Georgian, Hebrew, Greek, Chinese, Bulgarian, Russian, Albanian and Bosnian languages are emphasized. MIT Undersecretary Emre Taner, in a statement dated January 5, 2007, stated that “to ensure the national strength and protection the most effective way is to configure the functions of intelligence and national security policies that will support national interests.”
Turkish newspaper Sabah reported the 10 strategic areas that MIT will focus on as following:
– Caucasus: Russia’s new strategy in the region, Georgia’s NATO membership bid, Turkey – Armenia – Azerbaijan relations, Nagorno-Karabakh issue,
– Balkans: The tensions between states in the former Yugoslav Federation, Kosovo’s independence, Serbia and Croatia’s EU membership process, integration projects and infrastructure investments in Macedonia and Albania to the EU membership, Greece’s investments in Balkan countries` finance and telecom companies.
– Far East and Asia-Pacific axis: U.S. and EU countries to increase economic competitiveness the region. China and Japan’s activities to become a regional power and movements in Afghanistan.
– Middle East: Developments in Iraq and Lebanon, the Israeli-Palestinian problem, Iran’s insistence on nuclear development, Syria’s stance in the region, possible government changes in Arabian Peninsula emirates.
– Mediterranean: Cyprus problem, the energy concentration in the Mediterranean. Egypt and the Greek Cypriot`s oil exploration in the Mediterranean continental shelf, the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline, Samsun-Ceyhan Pipeline,
– Aegean: Turkey-Greece FIR line (civil aviation flight information center), and the problems caused by the continental shelf,
– Black Sea: The search activities and rich oil resources in Eastern Black Sea as well as efforts to get domain in the Black Sea countries.
– Africa: Crisis in Burundi, Angola, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Congo and the civil war that they might dragged on. Turkey’s strategic opening out to Africa and developing relations in North African countries, with the Turkish contracting and investments in textiles,
– Red Sea-Gulf of Aden: Strategic control of the transition paths, the provision of oil and gas transfer. In this context, to send frigate to the Aden region,
– Central Asia and Caspian Basin: Oil and natural gas sharing, creation of new structures for potential new pipelines. Russia’s opening in the energy region. Energy agreements between Russia-China. Extraction and marketing strategies for oil and gas reserves in the Caspian basin.
Source: www.worldbulletin.net, 20 March 2009