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What is the nature of the relationships of the MIT with foreign intelligence organizations?
The globalization, as well as the political and economic developments that have been
observed for the last 15-20 years render impossible for the intelligence organizations
to handle the problems only with their own efforts. This is a reality which is also valid
for the intelligence organizations known as the strongest among all others. Especially,
terrorism, which has been increasingly gaining importance, the wide-spread expansion of
organized crimes in the forms of money-laundering, and the smuggling of weapons, drugs,
and weapons of mass destruction, render inevitable the establishment of the cooperation
between the intelligence organizations.
The relations between the intelligence organizations have surely been shaped within
the limits of the legal restrictions imposed on their duties, the national interests,
and the decisions of the political authorities.
The MIT has been able to establish relations with any other intelligence organizations
in consistence with the interests of Turkey. The level of these relations is determined
by the principle of mutual benefits, and national interests.
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