5th Marine and Maritime Security Forum

  • “Marine Geoeconomics of the 21st Century, and Türkiye”
The efforts by the Turkish Naval Forces and the Turkish Defence Industry Complex to change the picture have increased significantly in recent years. Intellectual capabilities, or know-how capacity, is also significant especially in terms of guiding the way forward for Türkiye in essential seafaring domains such as maritime trade, shipyard and shipbuilding, port and agency services, maritime tourism, fishing, seabed mining and related sub-sectors, and maritime sciences. To meet this need, the 5th Marine and Maritime Security Forum, which will be held by TASAM National Defence and Security Institute, has a strong motivation to perform well.

THE MAIN EVENT
With all its co-events, the 9th Istanbul Security Conference with the main theme of "Strategic Transformation in the Ecosystem: Climate, Nourishment, Demography, Meritocracy, Economy, Health, Education, Employment, Family-Youth and City Security" will be held by TASAM National Defence and Security Institute (NDSI) in Istanbul Kent University Kağıthane Campus on 23-24 November 2023, in the 100th year of the founding of the Republic of Türkiye.

THE OTHER CO-EVENTS
2nd Istanbul Cyber-Security Forum (ICF) “New Cyber Economy and Turkish Products“
6th Türkiye - Africa Defence Security and Aerospace Forum (TAF) “Turkish Military Presence and New Horizons in Africa“
7th Türkiye - Gulf Defence and Security Forum (TGF) “New Discoveries in the Turkish - Arab Security Ecosystem“

There will be full-time Turkish-English and English-Turkish simultaneous translations at all events.

The application deadline for the Istanbul Security Conference and its co-events (Istanbul Cyber-Security Forum, Marine and Maritime Security Forum, Türkiye - Africa Defence Security and Aerospace Forum, and Turkey - Gulf Defence and Security Forum) is 21 November 2023. Participants who apply by filling out the form on Conference's or one of relevant co-events' page; will benefit from participation in all sessions, and lunches, conference materials, refreshments in coffee breaks within the scope of the events and will be entitled to a certificate and conference e-book. The Professional Participation fee for civilians is determined as ₺1,400, and the Academic Participation fee for academicians/students is determined as ₺900. TASAM's past interns and employees also receive a 25% discount with the code 2023IGK25.
 
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