Turkey is to remove Iran, Russia, Greece and Iraq from a group of states it considers a specific threat to its national security, international media reported on August 23. According to the report, the upgraded list is contained in Turkey's security review produced by its own version of the National Security Council (MGK) which is poised to be adopted in October 2010. The list will no longer refer to Iran as a "specific threat", Turkish Hurriyet reported. But the exclusion of Iran is not the only revision to the list, according to Turkish media. Turkey will remove Russia, Iraq and Greece from its countries considered threats to national security in one of the most significant security reviews since the Cold War, according to reports.
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