SECRECY OF INFORMATION AND
DOCUMENTS

THE PRINCIPLE OF SECRECY APPLIES TO ALL THE INFORMATION AND RECORDS THAT ARE RELATED WITH THE DUTY AND ACTIVITIES OF THE MIT

Providing secrecy in the conduct of the duty and activities mentioned in Law no. 2937 is indisputably of utmost importance. Moving from the standpoint that otherwise it will be impossible to render intelligence services be fulfilled at the required level, the secrecy of records and information concerning the duties and activities of the MIT has been enforced with a penal clause included in the Organizational Establishment Law. Under the 27th Article, a sentence of imprisonment shall be faced in the cases of acquiring records and information concerning the duties and activities of the Turkish National Intelligence Organization, disclosing these records and information on negligence and causing these records and information to be obtained by unauthorized people.

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