The Turkish General Staff is organizing an international symposium on the Middle East on June 5.

The Strategic Researches and Studies Center will host the two-day symposium on the future and security problems of the Middle East.

Chief of General Staff Gen. Yasar Buyukanit is expected make the opening speech at the symposium.

Participants of the symposium will discuss several issues on the Middle East, such as "political, social and cultural impacts of globalization on the Middle East; international reflections of U.S. foreign policy on the region; factors shaping EU policy on the Middle East; and Russian and Chinese policies on the Middle East."

The Palestinian-Israeli problem, crisis in Lebanon, Iraq, terrorism in the Middle East, impacts of security problems on Turkey and Turkey's role in Middle East security as a regional power will also be debated at the symposium.