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Turkey sharply increases funding for military research ANKARA � Turkey has decided to bolster its defense research capability. The government of Prime Minister Recep Erdogan has approved a huge increase for the state-owned Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, known by its Turkish acronym Tubitak. The government agreed to give Tubitak budget of $450 million, by far the largest since 1964. The research institute has focused on such defense projects as electronic warfare and software development. Tubitak has been directed by the Undersecretariat of Defense Industries, or SSM, to develop a helicopter mission computer. Tubitak Vice President �mer Cebeci said Tubitak has organized panels to develop defense and space technologies. He has called on academics to propose projects in these fields. Turkey allocates 0.66 percent of its gross national product for research and development. Japan and the United States invest 3 percent and the European Union allocates 2 percent to R&D. Cebeci said that under the latest budget Turkish scientists would start receiving grants for research. Over the last few months, the government has reshuffled the Tubitak board of directors. Parliamentarian Reha Deneme�, a member of the ruling Justice and Development Party, said changes in the law regarding Tubitak are intended to encourage R&D projects at universities and the private sector. "The Science and Technology Supreme Board, chaired by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has set a new objective for Turkey," Deneme� said. "For us to increase the allocated research and development funds to 2 percent of the GNP by 2010, we need to inject money from the outside." ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Take a look at donorschoose.org, an excellent charitable web site for anyone who cares about public education! http://us.click.yahoo.com/_OLuKD/8WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
