MİT adopts hybrid measures against new threats

At a moment when the international system is becoming highly uncertain and unstable due to the pains stemming from the transition period towards a multipolar world, the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MİT) is adopting new measures and methods to address asymmetric and hybrid threats specific to this period, says the agency head.

On the 97th anniversary, İbrahim Kalın hosted a group of reporters, academics and government officials at a special program held at MİT's compound, dubbed Kale (Castle in English) on Jan. 10 with the participation of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

The program included the opening of a museum, the announcement of the inauguration of the intelligence academy, and a new website for the MİT. Apart from his address to the audience, Kalın shared his views about the current state of global affairs and the role MİT will play in the coming period in a booklet titled "Hybrid Threats and Strategic Foresight in the Age of Uncertainty."

"We live in an age of great uncertainty," says Kalın at the very beginning of the booklet, underlining that the world system is evolving through a multipolar world and this generates instability and insecurity accompanied by hybrid threats and wars of attrition.

"The current international system is not resolving this uncertainty and instability, but deepening them," Kalın stressed. "As the MİT, we are acting with a strategic foresight that pays attention to the risks and opportunities stemming from this period of transition. We are aiming to build an intelligence and security perspective required by a multipolar world," he stated.

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