A new intelligence assessment prepared by Türkiye’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) places economic hardship and social fragmentation at the center of contemporary radicalization trends linked to Daesh. The report argues that unemployment, poverty and systemic injustice now outweigh ideological appeal as the main drivers pushing young people toward extremist networks.
Rather than treating radicalization solely as a security problem, the analysis frames it as a byproduct of prolonged socioeconomic stress. Young people who feel excluded from economic life and distrustful of institutions are described as particularly exposed to militant propaganda.
The report underscores that when individuals lose confidence in the possibility of change through legal or political channels, extremist organizations gain strategic leverage. This sense of inevitability, according to the…
