Specialists from over 20 member nations have attended the summit, to come up with ways to improve safety through law enforcement.
The summit is chaired by Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
“Our country Turkey has been fighting with terrorism for close to 30 years, fighting against the [Kurdistan Workers’ Party] PKK terrorists. We have looked to international solidarity from the international community. Turkey has also gained experience in this fight,” Davutoglu said.
Meanwhile, Turkey has been criticized for its military airstrike last year, which mistakenly killed 35 villagers in its search for PKK militants.
The Turkish government says PKK elements are operating close to the Turkish-Iraqi border in northern Iraq.
The Kurdish group, which is recognized as a terrorist group by much of the international community, took up arms against the central government in Turkey since 1984, sparking a conflict that has claimed some 45,000 lives.
The summit also comes just days after the US-led attack in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar Province left at least 23 people dead and another 50 wounded.
According to the United Nations, around 13,000 Afghan civilians have been killed in the last six years. This figure is roughly four times the number of people killed during the attacks on September 11, 2001.
Following the attacks, the US waged its “war on terror”, which many describe as an act of terror in itself.
The US-led war in Afghanistan began in 2001. The offensive removed the Taliban from power, but insecurity continues to rise across Afghanistan, despite the presence of about 130,000 of US-led troops.
