{"id":10324,"date":"2009-03-21T15:52:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T12:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=10324"},"modified":"2014-01-01T20:59:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T18:59:53","slug":"turkeys-mit-shifts-focus-to-foreign-intel-re-defining-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/03\/21\/turkeys-mit-shifts-focus-to-foreign-intel-re-defining-priorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey&#8217;s MIT shifts focus to foreign intel, re-defining priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Turkey&#8217;s the National Intelligence Organization re-defined 10 priority areas of global crisis regions affecting the fate of the international community.<\/h3>\n<p>Friday, 20 March 2009 15:19<\/p>\n<p>Turkey&#8217;s the National Intelligence Organization re-defined 10 priority areas of global crisis regions affecting the fate of the international community.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey&#8217;s the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) re-defined 10 priority areas of global crisis regions affecting the fate of the international community.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;the economic, political, cultural and demographic aspects.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;the economic, political, cultural and demographic aspects.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Turkish newspaper Sabah reported the 10 strategic areas that MIT will focus on as following:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Caucasus: <\/strong>Russia&#8217;s new strategy in the region, Georgia&#8217;s NATO membership bid, Turkey &#8211; Armenia &#8211; Azerbaijan relations, Nagorno-Karabakh issue,<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Balkans:<\/strong> The tensions between states in the former Yugoslav Federation, Kosovo&#8217;s independence, Serbia and Croatia&#8217;s EU membership process, integration projects and infrastructure investments in Macedonia and Albania to the EU membership, Greece&#8217;s investments in Balkan countries` finance and telecom companies.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n&#8211; Far East and Asia-Pacific axis:<\/strong> U.S. and EU countries to increase economic competitiveness the region. China and Japan&#8217;s activities to become a regional power and movements in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Middle East:<\/strong> Developments in Iraq and Lebanon, the Israeli-Palestinian problem, Iran&#8217;s insistence on nuclear development, Syria&#8217;s stance in the region, possible government changes in Arabian Peninsula emirates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Mediterranean:<\/strong> 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,<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Aegean: <\/strong>Turkey-Greece FIR line (civil aviation flight information center), and the problems caused by the continental shelf,<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Black Sea:<\/strong> The search activities and rich oil resources in Eastern Black Sea as well as efforts to get domain in the Black Sea countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Africa:<\/strong> Crisis in Burundi, Angola, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Congo and the civil war that they might dragged on. Turkey&#8217;s strategic opening out to Africa and developing relations in North African countries, with the Turkish contracting and investments in textiles,<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Red Sea-Gulf of Aden:<\/strong> Strategic control of the transition paths, the provision of oil and gas transfer. In this context, to send frigate to the Aden region,<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Central Asia and Caspian Basin:<\/strong> Oil and natural gas sharing, creation of new structures for potential new pipelines. Russia&#8217;s opening in the energy region. Energy agreements between Russia-China. Extraction and marketing strategies for oil and gas reserves in the Caspian basin.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0 <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.worldbulletin.net\/news_detail.php?id=38632\">www.worldbulletin.net<\/span>, 20 March 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey&#8217;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&#8217;s the National Intelligence Organization re-defined 10 priority areas of global crisis regions affecting the fate of the international community. 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