Security and Radicalization on Turkey-Iraq Relations Workshop

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12 May 2017, TOBB Economy and Technology University Conference Hall

A workshop on "Security and Radicalization" was held in Ankara on 12 May 2017, under the cooperation of ORSAM and Al-Nahrain Research Center operating under auspices of the National Security Undersecretariat of the Iraqi Prime Ministry. Iraqi academicians and specialists coming to Turkey attended the workshop as well as bureaucrats, academicians, specialists and researchers from Turkey. During the workshop, the following issues were primarily addressed:

• Common security threats
• Areas of cooperation in the security sector
• Struggle against PKK and affiliated organizations
• ISIS and beyond
• Religious radicalization
• Human security
• Ethnic radicalization
• Violent extremism
• Global and regional cooperation in the struggle against radicalization
• Radicalization and foreign terrorist fighters
• Social and economic dimension of the struggle with radicalization