Insight Turkey Debate : THE FUTURE OF IRAQI KURDISTAN: BETWEEN SURVIVAL AND INDEPENDENCE

September 25, 2012 Tuesday/ 11.00-13.00

Venue : SETA, Ankara Hall, ANKARA – Nenehatun Caddesi No: 66 GOP, Çankaya 06700 ANKARA

Moderator : İhsan Dağı, Editor in Chief, Insight Turkey

“Turkey, the US and the KRG: Moving Parts and the Geopolitical Realities”

William Park, (Kings College, London)

“Democracy or Partition: Future Scenarios for the Kurds of Iraq”

Burak Bilgehan Özpek, (TOBB ETU University,Ankara)

“Survival Strategies and Diplomatic Tools: The Kurdistan Region’s Foreign Policy Outlook”

Shwan Zulal, (Politicial Analyst & Energy Consultant, London)

Insight Turkey, the leading quarterly publication on Turkish politics and regional affairs, invites you to attend a debate on The Future of Iraqi Kurdistan: Between Survival and Independence. The debate will feature William Park, Burak Bilgehan Özpek and Shwan Zulal. The speakers —whose works on the subject appeared in the latest issue of Insight Turkey— will address the following topics: Turkey, the US and the KRG: Moving Parts and the Geopolitical Realities, Democracy or Partition: Future Scenarios for the Kurds of Iraq, Survival Strategies and Diplomatic Tools: The Kurdistan Region’s Foreign Policy Outlook.

Those who might be interested are warmly invited to this forum. – Please kindly RSVP to insight@insightturkey.com / + 90 312 551 21 74

Note: Panel discussion will be held in English