We interviewed many magazines, newspapers and agencies about the false news about our company that appeared in French news agencies in May. Our answers to the questions of Simon Marks from Bloomberg are below.
Dear Simon Marks
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Bloomberg / Newsroom
Thank you for your interest in our company. I will try to provide comprehensive answers to the questions you ask. Please do not hesitate to ask more if you deem necessary.
Although there are many news stories about our company, 90% of them are made without contacting us and without investigating the truth of the matter. Therefore, such news contains completely unrealistic claims. For this reason, I would like to emphasize that I find it admirable that you display real journalistic behavior, compared to the news that other French news agencies have made without questioning its reality.
First of all, I would like to give information about SADAT's field of activity and facts about SADAT;
SADAT Defense, provides consultancy, training and logistics services to armed forces and security forces in the field of defense and security according to the Turkish Commercial Code. SADAT was founded in 2012 by Retired General Adnan TANRIVERDİ as a commercial entity with the status of a Incorporated Company.
In 2016, Adnan Tanrıverdi resigned from the management of the company as he was appointed as the Presidential Chief Advisor and a member of the Security and Foreign Policies Board.
I find it useful to explain some of the issues in this sentence. Because SADAT Defense is a company with ethical values and a mission and vision that operates by adhering to its founding philosophy.
1) SADAT Defense provides services to the armed forces and security forces of states.
SADAT does not provide services to non-state actors such as terrorist organizations, paramilitary organizations, companies and individuals (even retired soldiers or security guards).
SADAT Defense is not a paramilitary organization. It has no armed force. It does not assume the duties of the armed forces and/or security forces directly or indirectly. SADAT does not provide homeland defense or venue security services. In other words, SADAT does not operate as a main or subcontractor in the primary duties of the armed forces or security forces.
2) In order to understand SADAT's mission and vision correctly, it is necessary to first understand SADAT's founding philosophy. Please kindly do not continue reading the answers to your questions without fully reviewing our founding philosophy, linked below. When the founding philosophy cannot be understood, it is completely disconnected from the context of the subject.
https://sadat.com.tr/en/about-us/why-sadat-inc-international-defense-consulting.html
SADAT Defense, as a Commercial Company that prioritizes service, aspires to solve the Defense problems of our friends.
Adnan Tanriverdi
Retired General
The mission of SADAT Defense is to create an environment of defense and defense industry cooperation among Islamic Countries by providing services in the fields of strategic consultancy, special defense and security training and logistics for the organization of the Armed Forces and Internal Security Forces in the international arena, and to create an environment of defense and defense industry cooperation among Islamic Countries and to enable the Islamic World to become a self-sufficient military power. To help it take its rightful place among the World Super Powers.
3) SADAT Defense offers strategic consultancy, special training and logistics services.
To give an example, SADAT Defense can establish a country's Special Forces from scratch. The planning and structuring phase of this study falls within the scope of consultancy services, the training of staff and trainers falls within the scope of training services, and the planning, project design and construction of barracks activities fall within the scope of logistics services.
Another example is; SADAT Defense establishes Military Standardization and Metrology Centers in countries requesting. Consultancy services such as designing the organization chart of this center in accordance with the country, preparing job descriptions, determining the qualifications of the staff, etc.; training of staff training service; Procurement of the center's information system, software and hardware, logistics services; falls within its scope.
Likewise, SADAT Defense produces Integrated Border Security Solutions. In this solution package; Issues such as analysis of threats at country borders, planning and project design are included in our consultancy services, construction of outposts along the borders for border security, surveillance, early warning systems, command and control systems, equipping with integrated weapon systems are included in our logistics services, and training of country personnel involved are within the scope of our training services.
4) SADAT Defense aims to guarantee a peaceful environment and increase the defense capacity and deterrent power of countries with the services it provides. In this context, SADAT Defense provides strategic consultancy services to countries on effectively using their existing defense and security capacity, producing projects to complete their deficiencies, maintaining peace and having a deterrent force to prevent conflict. SADAT has never provided service to conflict zones.
SADAT has no activities in Syria, Libya, Azerbaijan, Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali. It only offered a military sport - pentathlon facility project included Olympic pool for Libya in 2012-2013, but when the Libya crisis started, it had to withdraw before signing the contract. We have not had any activities in the other 5 countries so far.
5) SADAT Defense prefers to act in accordance with the dictates of this word;
If you want to do a favor to someone, don't give them a fish, teach them how to fish.
Confucius
COMING TO YOUR QUESTIONS;
1) There is a trend in Africa of states ditching traditional UN peacekeeping missions and instead hiring military contractors and advisors. Why do you think this is? Is there something that private companies offer that the multilateral structures the UN supports does not?
Since I get the impression that your question was asked with the assumption that SADAT is a paramilitary formation, I would first like to clarify this issue.
The Defense Industry Service Sector is subject to different classifications by different experts. As someone from the industry, I make a different classification in order to be understandable and simple. This classification fully reflects our perspective on the subject. I divide the sector into 3. While making this classification, I divide the sector into layers.
There are mercenaries at the bottom layer. As far as we follow from the press, they do all kinds of dirty work.
In the middle layer are companies that provide logistics services to war and conflict zones.
At the top layer, there are companies that provide consultancy, training and logistics services, carrying out activities that will guarantee a peaceful environment and contribute to creating a deterrent force. Here, SADAT International Defense Consultancy company operates in the white zone at the top layer of the sector.
After this mandatory explanation; The UN peacekeeping mission and even all its other institutions undertake very important duties. The duties of the UN, such as ensuring global justice and preserving peace, aim to make the world a livable place with equal rights for all humanity. I will not go into the details of the UN's duties, but in summary, the UN is an indispensable and essential institution.
It is not possible or correct for military contractors to fill the UN's peacekeeping mission. If today, in some regions, especially in Africa, states are truly entrusting their security to military contractors instead of applying to the UN, this would be a radically wrong decision.
You can criticize the functioning of the UN, its inability to fulfill its missions, and the acceptability of the formation of the UN Security Council. As a matter of fact, everyone with common sense criticizes these and offers solutions.
The massacre of Muslims that took place under UN control in Bosnia and Herzegovina still continues to bleed consciences. What will be done if what happened in Afghanistan will not be written on the UN's incompetence report card? It is possible to increase the examples. The duty of the international community is to subject the UN to structural and operational reforms.
If countries cannot find a solution other than taking the defense and security problems they cannot solve to military contractors because the UN has structural and serious problems in its functioning, we need to look at which countries benefit from the problem. When we look at the countries where paramilitary groups belong, it can be seen that these countries are actually UNSC member countries. It is clear that they are trying to reinforce their global dominance by blocking the solutions in the international community and exaggerating the problem.
Until 1946, there was a state called Palestine. Today, there is only Gaza and the West Bank. Those who stand by and watch the destruction of a country for 75 years and applaud the bloodshed of a handful of Muslims who are fighting for their lives in the last handful of land left today are the murderers of law and justice.
As a result, it is a radically wrong method for countries that have given up hope on the UN to entrust their defense and security to military contractors. SADAT offers these countries another solution. In order to guarantee a peaceful environment and have deterrent power, countries must organize, equip and fully train their own armed forces and police above international standards. As the Chinese wise Confucius said, SADAT prefers to "teach how to fish instead of giving fish to do good deeds". In other words, instead of undertaking the task of ensuring security, we recommend that they benefit from our strategic consultancy services to correctly organize the defense and security forces before experiencing security problems, and our special military training to use their own human resources correctly.
In this context, we have turnkey solution packages;
- Turnkey Special Forces Solution Package
- Integrated Border Security Solution Package (Outpost and Electronic Security Systems)
- Military Standardization and Metrology Center Solution Package
As can be seen, SADAT's work does not aim to make countries dependent, but to strengthen the institutional capacity of the countries it serves and strengthen them towards full independence.
If needed, SADAT is ready
If Africa cannot find a solution to its security problems in the UN, they should choose SADAT to avoid being caught in hail while escaping from the rain. Let them invite us and we will explain our service capacity. Our claim is that they cannot receive the consultancy and training services they receive from SADAT from other companies at more affordable prices, considering the price/performance balance. The solution is not to hand over security to armed gangs, but to develop their own assets. This is what SADAT exists for.
2) What presence does SADAT have on the African continent in terms of its strategic consultancy, special military training and logistics services?
SADAT proposes to carry out a series of studies that will enable not only the African continent but all countries to turn their own military capacities into a deterrent force and guarantee a peaceful environment. In this context, SADAT offers quick steps and much more in turnkey solution packages. A safer and fairer world is possible…
In this context, the issue of which solution packages we deliver to which countries is a confidential matter. We clearly declare what we do and what we do not do. But any further detail goes against the nature of security…
3) What sort of an opportunity do governments in Africa represent for your company?
Colonial countries, after carrying out industrial, technological, digital, etc. revolutions by stealing human power, the two main inputs of production for centuries, through the slavery system and stealing surface and underground resources, left Africa with nothing but empty ruins with no institutional structures. Türkiye is pursuing its African initiative with equality and humanitarian approaches. SADAT is in Africa not to exploit but to share.
IN CONCLUSION;
The genocide carried out by Israel in the Palestinian territories that it began to occupy in 1948, which has caused the murder of more than 36 thousand people (more than 50 thousand since 1948) since October 7, has made conscientious people from all walks of life, views, and religions question the reason for their existence in the world. Public conscience all over the world has reached the point of explosion.
Millions of people live in inhumane conditions not only in Palestine, but also in many geographies such as Yemen, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Arakan, Kashmir, East Turkestan and Ukraine. It is not even possible to say that many of them are alive.
The current International order imposed by the victors of the First and Second World Wars has completely lost its legitimacy.
The World is Bigger than Five.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
The established order is not sustainable. The justice of the powerful will be replaced by the rule of law. The international system must be reformed urgently.
SADAT Defense will continue to carry out the activities in its mission and vision with firm steps by adhering to its founding philosophy and international law .
It is announced to the public with respect. 26.06.2024
Melih TANRIVERDİ
Chairman of the Board
