MIT Chief İbrahim Kalın's statement on Azerbaijan-Armenia: It will bring stability to the region

According to security sources, National Intelligence Organization (MIT) Chief İbrahim Kalın attended the Baku Security Conference held in Azerbaijan on September 14-15. The theme of this year's conference, which was attended by heads of intelligence and security bureaucracies from approximately 50 countries, was determined as "Modern Challenges to the Security of Global Transportation Routes."

During the conference, where regional and global challenges were discussed, MIT Chief Kalın met with his counterparts from many countries to hold bilateral talks and address current developments. In his speech at the Baku Security Summit session, Kalın touched upon trust crises in the global environment, the increasing threat of terrorism, and the humanitarian consequences they cause.

İbrahim Kalın drew attention to the successful steps Azerbaijan has taken toward normalizing life in Karabakh, which it liberated from occupation after the 44-day war, and emphasized that a final peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan is essential for stability and development in the Caucasus. Underlining that the permanent peace to be established would also enable connections along the Azerbaijan-Armenia-Nakhchivan-Turkey-Europe line, including the opening of the Zangezur Corridor, Kalın also mentioned that the rapidly changing and increasingly fragile international system is facing two major global crises in the context of the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.

Emphasizing that the Russia-Ukraine War should be resolved through the construction of a new security architecture based on international law, Kalın pointed out that a ceasefire is urgently needed to stop the war in Gaza, which has led to the deaths of more than 40 thousand Palestinians, and that the only way to ensure lasting peace is a two-state solution that ends the Israeli occupation. Emphasizing the importance of establishing an independent Palestinian State, Kalın noted that security and freedom are also the most fundamental rights of the Palestinian people.

CONTACTS WILL CONTINUE TO END WARS

In this sense, Kalın also underscored that Turkey will continue its multi-faceted intelligence diplomacy efforts, both open and closed, to end both the Ukraine and Gaza wars. Stating that terrorism is a global threat and that in this context, the fight against terrorist organizations such as DAESH, Al-Qaeda, DAESH's so-called Khorasan Province (ISKP), Al-Shabaab, the Sahel-responsible branch of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), PKK, and FETO must be carried out jointly, Kalın emphasized that terrorist organizations cannot be distinguished from one another and that no one can be safe until everyone is safe.

Pointing to the importance of intelligence diplomacy in a wide spectrum, from prisoner exchanges to ceasefire negotiations, in combating increasingly complex threats in current geopolitics, Kalın also stated that the Baku Security Forum should be institutionalized by establishing a secretariat.