I'm John Batsch with my colleague Gregory Coppley, editor and publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs.

Turkey demonstrating in the Mediterranean it's got hardware for sale, military

hardware. However, Turkey also has an intelligence service I've learned to

respect because it's everywhere.

Once upon a time I remember a story is it turned up in the Southeast Asia.

Now it's turned up in Africa.

Last week, Gregory and I talked about Turkish intelligence in West Africa.

Gregory, you list that Somalia, Uganda, and Gambia were in attendance for these war exercises.

To what end?

Is Turkey intelligence in those countries?

Well, at MIT, the Turkish Main Intelligence Bureau has definitely got

an extensive number of security cooperation

or defense cooperation agreements with most of the African states.

So they are definitely hoping to bring in all of Africa as part of this new Ottoman area of influence.

Of course they were historically heavily involved in Somalia and in other parts

Egypt of course for years Libya the like but MIT and other elements

of Turkish military intelligence are involved we've pointed out in the past that

the the private military contractor,

Turkish private military contact, which is called Sadat,

nothing to do with President Sadat of Egypt,

is operating in. President of that

that of Egypt is operating in the country but also you've got the Turks now

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