Dhaka, March 29 -- The ongoing military confrontation involving the United States, Israel, and Iran is no longer a localised skirmish but a fast-moving "global crisis" that could demand a heavy toll from every person on earth, the head of the Turkish National Intelligence Organisation, known in short in Turkey as MIT, has warned.

Speaking at the Stratcom Summit 2026 in Istanbul on Saturday, Ibrahim Kalin delivered a grim assessment of the conflict that began on Feb 28.

According to a report by Ankara-based state-run Anadolu Agency, he suggested the world has been navigating a series of fractures since the COVID-19 pandemic, but the current escalation represents a dangerous new threshold.

Reflecting on the scale of the potential disaste...