ANKARA: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday said he wanted to introduce constitutional changes to bring the Turkish spy agency and military chief of staff directly under his control.
“We are going to introduce a small constitutional package (to parliament) which, if approved, will bring the National Intelligence Organisation (MIT) and chief of staff under the control of the presidency,” Erdogan told A-Haber television in an interview.
The government would need support from opposition parties to push through the shift as a super majority of two-thirds of deputies is needed to make constitutional changes. Erdogan added that in the wake of the July 15 coup bid “military schools will be closed… and a national military university will be founded” as part of a wide-ranging shake-up of the military.
He also said that in future the heads of the land, sea and air forces will have to report directly to Defence Minister Fikri Isik. Erdogan said he was unhappy with the information received from the MIT and its chief Hakan Fidan on the night of the coup, complaining that valuable time had been lost. “There was unfortunately in all of this a serious intelligence failure,” he said.
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