MESOP NEWS “CONFERENCE UNDER PKK UMBRELLA” : 13th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON “THE EUROPEAN UNION, TURKEY, THE MIDDLE EAST & THE KURDS”

TURKEY, THE KURDS AND THE WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST –  TURKEY – DEMOCRACY SUSPENDED – ISIS AND THE CRISIS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Brussels, European Parliament – neWednesday 7th & Thursday 8th of December 2016

ATTENDED FIRST TIME BY MICHAEL RUBIN – AMERICAN ENTERPRISE HARD CORE CONSERVATIVE

An official “European Parliament personal badge/pass” will be available for all ALREADY REGISTERED participants to the Conference.Your “personal badge / pass” will be available at the main entrance of the European Parliament (Place de Luxembourg – main European Parliament’s building “Altiero Spinelli” – just after the sliding doors you’ll find a conference desk), during and only the following date / hours:

– Wednesday 7th of December, 11:30 – 13:00

– Thursday 8th December, 08.30 – 09:30

– Thursday 8th December, 14:30 – 15:00

All participants must take care of their own “EP badge / pass” during both days; if someone lose the “pass / badge” it will be impossible for the conference’s organizers to replace it, according to the E.P. internal rules.

OPENING REMARKS AND GREETINGS

• Ms. Kariane WESTRHEIM, Chair EUTCC, University of Bergen, Norway
• Mr. Josef WEIDENHOLZER, MEP, Vice-President of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) in the European Parliament, Austria
• Ms. Gabi ZIMMER, MEP, Chairwoman of the European United Left – Nordic Green Left Group (GUE/NGL) in the European Parliament, Germany

OPENING SPEECHES AND SPECIAL REMARKS BY

• Mr. Ebrahim EBRAHIM, Former Deputy Minister for International Relations and Co-operation, Member of the African National Congress National Executive Committee, South Africa
• Message from Prison; Mr. Selahattin DEMIRTAS and Ms. Figen YUKSEKDAG, Co-Presidents of HDP (The Peoples’ Democratic Party), Member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey

 THE LINES IN THE SAND: SYKES PICOT AND THE HISTORIC ROOTS OF THE KURDISH CONFLICT

• Mr. Hamit BOZARSLAN, Professor of History and Sociology, Paris, France

ACCOUNTABILITY FOR VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN LAW IN TURKEY

• Mr. David PHILLIPS, Director of Peace-Building and Human Rights Program, Columbia University, USA

TURKEY AND ITS ALLIES’ ROLE IN THE SYRIAN CRISIS

• Mr. Fehim TASTEKIN, journalist, analyst and specialist in Turkish foreign policy, Caucasus, Middle East and EU affairs, Turkey

THE GENEVA PEACE TALKS ON SYRIA AND THE KURDS

• Mr. Kamran MATIN, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Sussex University, UK

QUESTIONS & DISCUSSION WITH MODERATORS & DISCUSSANTS

 INTERVIEW SESSION WITH

• Salih MUSLIM, Co-President of Democratic Union Party (PYD), Rojava-Syria
• Carne ROSS, Writer on International Affairs, US (on SKYPE)
• Jonathan STEELE, Veteran Foreign Correspondent and Author, UK

TURKEY AT THE CROSSROADS: THE DEATH OF THE PEACE PROCESS

• Mr. Cengiz CANDAR, Journalist, Turkey
  

WHAT ROLE FOR WESTERN POWERS?

• Mr. Michael RUBIN, Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, USA

THE LYNCHPIN OF THE PEACE PROCESS

• Mr. Simon DUBBINS, International Director of UNITE, UK
  

THE PATH TO PEACE AND DEMOCRACY

• Mr. Hatip DICLE, Co-Chair of Peoples’ Democratic Congress (HDK), Turkey

WHAT COULD/SHOULD THE HUMAN RIGHTS WORLD DO ABOUT TURKEY

• Dimitris CHRISTOPOULOS, President of the FIDH – Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and History- Panteion University (Athens GR).

THE ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS AND THEIR DUTIES

• Ms. Ulrike LUNACEK, Vice-President of the EP, Group of the Greens – European Free Alliance in the European Parliament

QUESTIONS & DISCUSSION WITH MODERATORS & DISCUSSANTS

 INTERVIEW SESSION WITH

• Osman BAYDEMIR, HDP Vice-President, Turkey
• Alberto NEGRI, Journalist. Italy

  Thursday, 8th of December 2016, 15.00-17.30

AGENDA FOR CHANGE: KURDISH PROSPECTS AND ALTERNATIVES

• Mr. Melle BAHTIYAR, PUK, Kurdistan-Iraq
  

THE EU AND THE POLITICAL RESOLUTION OF THE KURDISH QUESTION IN THE MIDDLE EAST

• Mr. Takis HADJIGEORGIOU, MEP, GUE/NGL Group in the EP

INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

• Dr. Bill BOWRING, Professor of Law in the School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London and Author, UK
  

SELF-GOVERNANCE, DE-CENTRALISATION AND CO-EXISTENCE

• Mr. Bassam Said ISHAK, Representative of European Syriac Union, North-Syria

AGENDA FOR CHANGE: KURDISH PROSPECTS AND ALTERNATIVES

• Mr. Zubeyir AYDAR, Member of the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK)

QUESTIONS & DISCUSSION WITH MODERATORS & DISCUSSANTS

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