11th International Conference on “the European Union, Turkey, the Middle East and the Kurds”
This conference will be live streamed
Wednesday: http://eventstream.streamovations.be/european-union-turkey-middle-east-kurds-10-dec.php
Thursday: http://eventstream.streamovations.be/european-union-turkey-middle-east-kurds-11-dec.php
Wednesday 10th & Thursday 11th December 2014 – Room ASP 1G2
European Parliament, Brussels (B)
Interpretation available in Turkish, English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish
Conference's Patrons:
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, South Africa
Dr. Shirin Ebadi
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Iran
Bianca Jagger
Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador
Chair of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation, UK
Professor Noam Chomsky
Writer, USA
Yasar Kemal
Writer, Turkey
Vedat Turkali
Writer, Turkey
Leyla Zana
European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought
Rafto Prize Laureate, Turkey
Wednesday, 10th December 2014, 15.00-16.00
Opening Session
Prof. Kariane WESTRHEIM, EUTCC Chairwoman, Norway
MEP Ms Gabi ZIMMER, Chairwoman of the European United Left – Nordic Green
Left Group (GUE/NGL) in the European Parliament
Mr. Adem UZUN, Executive Member of the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK)
Wednesday, 10th December 2014, 16.00-18.30
Panel I
Strengthening the Turkish-Kurdish Peace Process:
A New Chance for Turkey and the Region
Moderators:
Judge Essa MOOSA, IPRI, South Africa
Ms. Dersim DAGDEVIREN, President of KURD-AKAD, Germany
The Road Map for Real Negotiations
Prof Dr. Hans-Joachim GIESMANN, Director of Berghof Foundation, Germany
The Role of Abdullah Ocalan in the Peace Process
MP Ms. Pervin BULDAN, Group-spokeswoman of HDP in the Turkish Parliament, Turkey
EU Policy Towards the Kurds in Europe
GUE/NGL MEP Rina Ronja KARI
The Peace Process and Turkish Civil Society
Mr. Huseyin YAYMAN, Journalist, Turkey
New Developments in the Region and the Peace Process
Ms. Arzu YILMAZ, PhD, Ankara University, Turkey
EU Contribution and Obstacles for the Solution of the Kurdish Issue – Delisting the PKK from the Anti-terror List
Ms. Marieke van EIK, Lawyer, Prakken d’Oliveira, The Netherlands
Questions and discussion with moderators & discussants
Thursday, 11th December 2014, 09.30 – 13.00
Panel II
What are the Alternatives to the Chaos in the Middle East?
Security, Stability and Welfare in the Region
Moderators:
Prof. Michael GUNTER, EUTCC Secretary General, United States
Mr. Osman KAVALA, Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV), Turkey
The Iraqi Crisis, ISIS and the Kurdistan Region
Prof. Abbas VALI, Bogazici University, Turkey
Suraqiland and the Shifting Paradigms in the Middle East
Ms. Ofra BENGIO, Moshe Dayan Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel
West-Kurdistan, ISIS and the Assad Regime
Ms. Bahar SIMSEK, PhD candidate Ankara University, Turkey
The Kurdish Multi-Ethnic and Sectarian Solutions
Mr. Salih MUSLIM, Co-President of PYD, Rojava-Syria
Possible Contributions of the EU for Peace, Stability and Security in the Middle East
Ms. Fréderike GEERDINK, Journalist, The Netherlands
EU Policy in the Middle East and Kurdistan
MEP Ms. Bodil CEBALLOS, Greens/European Free Alliance Group in the EP
Questions and discussion with moderators & discussants
Thursday, 11th December 2014, 15.00 – 17.30
Panel III
Responsibilities for Resolving the Crisis in the Middle East
Moderators:
Mr. Jürgen KLUTE, former GUE/NGL MEP, Germany
Ms. Asli AYDINTASBAS, Journalist, Turkey
The EU-Turkey Relationship and the Kurdish Issue
Dr. Phil. Günter SEUFERT, SWP Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Germany
The Paris Murders of Sakine Cansiz, Fidan Dogan, and Leyla Saylemez: Two Years Later
Me Antoine COMTE, Lawyer, France
Radical Islam in the Middle East
Ms. Sirin PAYZIN, Journalist, Turkey
Women’s Perspectives for the Solution to the Crisis
Ms. Gonul KAYA, Kurdish Women Movement Representative
The Expectations and Plights of the West
Dr. Michael RUBIN, American Enterprise Institute, United States
Kurdish Contribution to a New Democratic Turkey based on Unity of Diversities
MP Mr. Selahattin DEMIRTAS, Co-President of HDP, Turkey
Questions and discussion with moderators & discussants
Thursday, 11th December 2014, 17.30 – 18.30
Resolution & Final Remarks
EUTCC Board Members
Mr. Francis WURTZ, Former President of GUE/NGL Group in the EP
MP Mr. Nazmi GUR, Vice-President of the HDP, Turkey
For more information please contact:
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GUE/NGL press contact: Gianfranco Battistini + 32 475 646628