Establishing the national homeland security initiative right remains the most challenging task in the Turkey owing to the concerns in protecting the homeland are based on pervasive competency, over-centralization, entrenched politics, and corruption that frequently make Washington not to discharge their duties appropriately. Given numerous terrorist and criminal activities being witnessed in Turkey’s neighboring countries, like Iraq and Syria, which are believed to make nuclear weapons, there is an urgent need to strengthen Turkey’s Homeland security. The recommendations indicated in this article are vital steps in setting up the suited kind of homeland security for Turkey. The encounters of the last ten years are a better direction to the future than what was imagined during the instantaneous aftermath of terrorisms, drug smuggling, and kidnapping occurrences in Turkey. The Homeland Security Act identified border security as the primary assignment for new Department of Homeland Security. Similarly, the botched parliament effort to comprehensively amend emigration laws renewed focus on the Turkey, Syria and Iraq border with in addition to the difficulties of surges in cross-border crimes and unlawful border crossing (Frost, 2012).
As a new leader, there is need to deploy innovative technologies at the border, employ more Border Patrol agents, and increase erected physical barriers. These efforts can reduce illegal foreigners in Turkey. Adopting these attempts is a significant instrument of preventing domestic terrorism, fighting cross-border crime cartels, and regaining control of the Turkey widespread border whereas enhancing legal distribution of goods and services. These measures and tasks should be implemented to integrate national attempts with local and state administrations plus private citizens (Holloway, 2014).
As the new Head of State of Turkey, I will steer a system of government that will champion a great equality, democracy, and secure nation for all (Lane, 2013). This implies that Turkey will embrace departments identical to that of United States. These departments include the Federal Management Agency (FEMA), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) (Homel & Masson, 2016), Immigration and Citizenship services, a secret service, Coast Guard, Boarder Protection Services, and numerous others that will constitute Turkey homeland security.
TURKEY NEW SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT
Turkey’s new systems will be founded on equality, belief of life, and economy. This means that everyone will access what is necessary to live by having a gracing job, healthcare, security, and profession that may stand within the structure of developing a sustainable system in which all business activities, social-abilities, and products are found upon and veered toward what is good for everyone. The new government will make sure that every corporate activity are centered on meeting the precise needs of the public, guaranteeing the minimal harm is generated toward the surrounding and sharing equal revenue to any single employee in a corporation. This foundation of equal revenue distribution will be the means to guarantee that equality is not any more a nice work in United States constitution, though it is apparently as an actuality within Turkey residents (Frost, 2012).
Turkey’s system will not only have an administration with the capacity to make decisions, but also supervise and manage decision making procedure by public participation via equality democracy (Holloway, 2014). Turkey revenue will be the major instrument to administer and allocate resources, but no an asset itself, meaning that there would be no interest or debt it is implied to. This will pressure banks to shift to the public service they ought to have always been (Lane, 2013).
Key Proposals
Turkey will establish a structure for empowering local and state authorities to discharge their roles for domestic counterterrorism operations and disaster preparedness, especially for making sure local and state input into promoting intelligence-led policing and national policies (Homel et al., 2016).
Making Federalism Work
The Turkey Constitution formed a federalism system and provided the government express, but not restricted, powers and retained all the other power for the people and the states. There should be an amendment to firmly create federalist system of administration by stressing the Bill of Rights, and must not be construed to disparage or deny others reserved by the people. The corollary provision that powers not delegated to Turkey should be incorporated in the constitution. The powers delegated to numerous states will expand all the objects that involve lives, property and liberty (Holloway, 2014).
The subsequent security agenda must lead Turkey back to its constitutional basis, where the federal government had discrete and limited powers and the local and state governments adopted the bulk of the power which affected Turkey lives. Choosing the suitable path back toward federalism will need hard choices by policy makers and Turkey nationals eager to stop looking at Ankara to address every problem (Homel et al., 2016).
Fixing National Policy Development
There is a requirement to strengthen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Homeland Security Council (HSC). The DHS will be required to utilize tools, for example, proposed rulemaking or notices to provide the local and central governments the comment in case the department changes, removes, or adds a regulation. Ultimately, the DHS will initiate varied attempts to improve its stakeholder outreach, like establishing new local and state working groups and outreach officers (Frost, 2012).
As new leader, I will issue an executive order offering localities and states a seat a federal policy making table on homeland security matters (Lane, 2013). The group ought to collaborate directly will National Security Council personnel and be involved in applicable Interagency Policy Committee (IPC). Instituting the Interagency Threat Assessments and Coordination Group (ITACG) may provide a purposeful model. Similarly, the DHS and Nationwide Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) will jointly supervise ITACG to draw local and state standpoint into the national cycle. The ITACG will require an advisory council to propose policies which integrate local and state analysts together with intelligence analysts in NCTC. Localities and states should have a say in case homeland security policies are being discussed, proposed, developed, released, and acted on. This form of coordination is an essential key in constructing the national homeland security initiative the country deserves.
Dealing with the Federal Failure on Immigration
As a leader, there is need for federal government to control who comes into the country. Anyone entering the country should have valid visa to prevent illegal immigration that has been witnessed in the past two decades. This measure should be backed to strengthen internal enforcement, secure the boarder and tighten visa policy. Since Turkey share boarder with war torn countries, such as Iraq and Syria, there is needed to tighten immigration policies. It is believed that nuclear weapons might be in the hands of illegal criminals, and ISIS, which pose a big threat to Turkey homeland security (Holloway, 2014).
What the Government will Implement and Why
The new federal government ought to shun attack on local and central government efforts to implement immigration regulations. States officers will have clear authority to take action in the public safety interest of their residences. The constitution clearly confers these police authorities to local and central government and the public. Consequently, local and central governments preserves inherent power to implement federal civil law. Rather than trying to disregard these efforts, Administration and legislators need to reform laws that restrict the actions localities and states may take (Lane, 2013).
The Turkey government will back local and state immigration enforcement drives that act as significant force multipliers for implementation struggles. Concerning local and state levels, Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) Agreements of Collaboration in Community (Homel et al., 2016) to Enhance Security and Safety (ACCESS) program remained popular. Strengthening it will enable localities to act on illegal emigration should they desire to do so. The new Administration will back Secure Communities, which is considered an important database tool for delivering information to ICE regarding illegal refugees detained by local and state law enforcement and aiding ICE to prioritize public resources. The Section 287 (g) permits law enforcement bodies to make agreement will ICE to take action by processing unlawful aliens for exclusion. Prior to a state or local law enforcement could take part, it have to put signature on the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA). Also, contributing officials and ICE will be go through a 5-week training program, mandatory certifications, and a background check.
According to Frost (2012) studies, Section 287 (g) will be a substantial improvement in emigration law enforcement. Practically, most illegal migrants were free and laws and regulations were not enforced before. As a new president, I will ensure that this vital section of the law is implemented to the latter within the first two years in office.
The federal government need deploy a menu of worksite implementation tools to discourage the utilization of illegal labor. The efficient immigration enforcement ought to incorporate ways for employer authentication, whose goal focuses on employers of illegal workers and labor (Homel et al., 2016). The new government will restore Worksite raids and Social Security No-Match to address off-the-book employment and identity theft. Legislative body will be required to precisely consent the Social Security Administrations to regularly share information directly with homeland security. Sharing this data and giving the DHS the resources and power to aim large-scale companies within the economic sectors where undocumented employees are most (dominant such as agriculture, construction, and service industries) will provide enforcement and incentive measures to discourage employers from shadow labor force.
Congress needed to persuade states to adopt REAL ID. The new government be committed on stopping terrorism and combating identity theft by implementing REAL ID that sets least security criterions for divers’ licenses. Secure identification passes will render fraudulent documents more challenging to acquire and will ease employer’s attempts to check documents as they verify worker eligibility (Lane, 2013). REAL ID will motivate states to take drastic measures to stop identity theft suing drivers’ licenses and obligates states to check legitimate status of persons applying for license.
Legal Issues Associated with
Numerous countries face various challenges as far as homeland security is concerned. The first issue is weak policy dealing with trade, possession and movement of weapons among the public. For a long time, dangerous weapons have landed on terrorist hands and deadly gangs, thus posing other countries to potential attacks. For instance, extremists groups in Iraq, such as ISIS, have acquired deadly arsenal as a result of weak policy and past regimes laxity to reform illegal trade of weapons. The second issues are the lack of clear policy regulating migration of citizens from one state to another (Frost, 2012). For instance, Syria does not have a framework to monitor those who leaves and enter their country, thus, threatening the nation’s security. Influx of refugees in Turkey today has been caused by inadequate measures to protect the boarder, porous border with its neighbors, use of outdated technology to verify illegal immigrants and many others.
Countries to Visit to Establish Relations, Treaties and Agreements and its Effect
As a new Head of State, I will visit and make treaties and agreements with well-organized countries like United States, Russia, and Iran (Holloway, 2014). Owing to democratic and superpower status of United States globally, it will be a valuable destination in terms of borrowing their well-structured policy on homeland security, counterterrorism mechanisms, and strategies of running a democratic government. Economically Turkey will gain financial support along with training homeland security officials with innovative technological models from Russia and US. As a close ally neighbor of Turkey, Iran will collaborate with Turkey in sharing intelligence information concerning terrorism activities in Syria and Iraq. As a result, Turkey will be able to sustain rapid political and economic stability across the region (Lane, 2013).
Security Practices with other Nations
As a leader, the foremost treaty will consider enacting policy regulating immigration and weaponry trade. There will be a need to corporate with these states in tightening background checks across our boarders, introducing quality visa, sharing intelligence, and establishing trade policies to improve economic and social development.
Pros and Cons of Practicing an Isolationist Policy
Pros of Isolationist Policy
Having an isolationist policy would be that Turkey can attain positive peace and economic affluent because it will remain free of engagement of such. The instance is America embracing isolationist throughout nineteenth-century and the commencement of twentieth-century (Frost, 2012). US only abandon their views on WWI when Germans employed submarines against them, thus they needed assistance from other European states. Turkey is surrounded with war torn countries such as Syria, Iraq, and Ukraine and any war against them may destroy the country within months. Thus it is now the safe to remain isolationist.
Cons of Isolationist Policy
The cons regarding isolationist policy in Turkey is the idea that there will be no backing from any other country and their diminishing economy could worsen Turkey in a few years. Also, it will not be possible to make treaties, diplomatic relations, and international trade. Also no country will be willing to support Turkey during terrorist invasion (Lane, 2013).
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