Major dilemma: Turkey’s intelligence networks
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
NİHAT ALİ ÖZCAN
The recent rise in the number of Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, attacks is making the Recep Tayyip Erdoğan government very angry, which is striving to manage the process, especially in order to decrease the speed of terrorist acts and reduce their negative impact. So far the prime minister has made several attempts, two of which are interesting because of their interrelated yet contrasting nature. On the one hand, the government has made efforts to upgrade its intelligence capability, especially by purchasing “unmanned aerial vehicles-UAVs” which have been recently seen as the most popular data gathering instruments. On the other hand, it is trying to maintain its cooperation with some countries -especially Iran- against the PKK.
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