Ankara to Host Turkey-Iran-Pakistan Symposium

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

**Turkey's view points

Ankara to Host Turkey-Iran-Pakistan Symposium

An international symposium titled Trilateral Cooperation among Turkey, Iran, Pakistan is set to be held in the Turkish capital Ankara on April 26.


The symposium is to be attended by professors, researchers, experts and students from Turkey, Iran and Pakistan.

It is co-organized by the Centre for Iranian Studies in Ankara (iRAM), Yildirim Beyazit University, Institute of Strategic Studies of Islamabad (ISSI) and Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS), a foreign policy think tank affiliated with Iran’s Foreign Ministry, a report by Anadolu news agency said.

The symposium is aimed at exploring and assessing opportunities for further mutual and trilateral cooperation between the three states.

The organizers maintain that Iran, Turkey and Pakistan enjoy high capacities to create a strong regional alliance to overcome security and development problems. The participants will contribute to the symposiums through articles and research on these opportunities.

The main themes of the symposium deal with economic, security, investment and trade issues among the three states.

 

[Murgah]

Regional connectivity is a need of time. Pakistan iran and Turkey have so much potential if they work together

 

[Crusher]

We used to have a subchapter in our social studies book (muasharti uloom book) in 6th class in 1988 that Pakistan is connected to Turkey via Iran with a regional organization RCD, I later learned that it was pre-1979 agreement between pakistan-iran-turkey to develop economic cooperation between these three countries and build road and rail connectivity to increase economic interaction between these countries. I don't know what the hell happened with that RCD organization over the decades, it seems like it became ineffective probably due to post 1979 iranian revolution and regime change.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

** We all read those snippets about Cento


They key point is if , the Treaty is given a rebirth what would Turkish citizens want to see from it

a) Defensive cooperation
b) FTA with Pakistan
c) VISA FREE TRAVEL (Tourist Visa)
d) Train / Road routes fully enabled
e) Joint Military Exercises