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Georgia’s Country Report of 2015 of the US DS
The following year’s report also included the new steps that
Georgia had been taking during the previous year. As the government
of Georgia claims in this report, there had been taken many steps in
the direction of securing Georgia’s borders from not only any foreign
threat, but for eliminating the chance of illegal transfer of people or
future terrorists. Georgia started to concentrate more on the document
security, especially on borders with Turkey, to ensure that travelling
with fake documents (what recruits always used) was not possible.
Considering the geographic position of Georgia and Turkey, the threat
of the movement of terrorists could also be posed from the side of the
sea (water transportation). This is why, as the report claims, “with
significant U.S. support, the Georgian Coast Guard is better equipped
to patrol the country’s maritime borders” 37 .
While looking at both documents and trying to compare them, one
can come to a conclusion that in the years of the apogee of the ISIS
violent activities and active recruitment, Georgian government
undertook some major steps in order to ensure security for its country
and citizens on some level. The Georgian Government stresses out
that the steps undertaken by them do not only concern the security of
their own state but the whole region with its neighboring countries
(Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey). According to the report տhe
counterterrorist steps that the State of Georgia undertook in 2015
show that even in one-year period the Government had come up with
new steps to strengthen the fight not only against the terrorist
organizations themselves, but also against the recruitment of young
Georgian citizens.
Conclusion
The study tried to analyze the special features of the ISIS
recruitment processes that have been taking place in Georgia. The
research included literature, press and media, and official documents.
As the literature suggests there are two major ways to recruit: online
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Reports:
Europe
https://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/crt/2014/239406.htm
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Overview,
2015,