The end of the nineteenth century witnessed a great deal of effort throughout Europe to establish international cooperation in fighting terrorism that had emerged as a new form of collective protest and violence. Espeically In the last quarter of the century, there had been many terrorist incidents that left both the populace and their states in great horror. There were, for instance, three assassinations against head of states and many bombings. It could be conjectured that the new vision of the French Revolution promoting equality, liberty and fraternity on the one side, but also generating discrimination, exclusion and collective violence on the other was one of the principle instigators of this mode of destructive expression. The year 1898 when the Empress of Austria was assassinated can be marked a turning point in the debate on international cooperation on security. During 1898, almost all the European states - including the Ottoman Empire- participated in a secret conference in Rome that was held withthe intent to take collective measures against anarchist terrorists. Eventhough the conference failed to ceate a joint stand against anarchist terrorism, it nevertheless enabled the spread of various administrative precautions that many states then applied domestically. Hence, the conference was significant in setting the precedent for many subsequent meetings that have been held not only later in the twentieth century, but also in teh twenty-first. At the conference, the Ottoman Empire initially sided with the conservative states, also attending the subsequent and more effective meetings and conferences that took place. This paper brings in a new approach to late Ottoman studies by focusing on the public negitona of the Ottoman Empire's stand on collective violence in the international sphere that it had started to participate in since the beginning of the nineteenth century. Specifically, the paper discusses the aims, motivations and, above all, the expectations of the Ottoman Empire in this context from archival documents that have not been previously studied.