MÄ°T TO RECRUIT PERSONNEL FLUENT IN MINORITY LANGUAGES

Today’s Zaman
July 24 2012
Turkey

0 24 July 2012 / TODAY’S ZAMAN, Ä°STANBUL

The National Intelligence Organization (MÄ°T) will recruit the
personnel who know Arabic, Persian, Armenian, Sorani and Hebrew.

Sorani is a Kurdish dialect that is spoken in Kurdish areas of Iran
and Iraq.

Candidates need to be citizens of Turkey and at least a graduate of
college or an equivalent school. A person who is a graduate of an
international school needs to possess an equivalence certificate
provided by the Higher Education Board (YOK) and the Ministry of
Education.

Male candidates are required to have completed their military service
or to be three months from discharge. However, if the male candidates
have not started their military service yet, they need to defer their
service until July 2013 at the earliest. Priority is given to the
candidate who is available to serve in different parts of Turkey and
the world. The candidates must be successful during the interview that
is part of the entrance exams organized by the MÄ°T Undersecretariat.

Applicants who satisfy the conditions will later need to pass a test
of their foreign language in both a written and a spoken format. The
candidates that earn scores of 70 and above in Arabic, Persian and
Armenian in the Foreign Language Exam for State Personnel (KPDS)
will be exempted from the foreign language test.