MESOP RECOMMENDATION : LONDON EVENT Public Forum: Iran’s Kurds at a Crossroads? International & Cross-Border Strategies

Event to be held at the following time, date and location:  Monday, 25 January 2016 from 19:00 to 21:00 (GMT) – Boothroyd Room – Portcullis House – SW1A 2LW Westminster – United Kingdom

The Centre for Kurdish Progress and the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) are pleased to invite you to a public forum titled ‘Iran’s Kurds at a Crossroads? – International and Cross-Border Strategies’. Keynote speakers are Mr Nasser Boladai, President of UNPO; Mr Abdullah Mohtadi, leader of the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan; Mr Loghman Ahmedi, Head of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan’s (PDKI) Foreign Relations and Dr Seevan Saeed of University of Exeter.Mr Mustafa Hijri, General Secretary of the PDKI is now unable to attend due to travel arrangements. Mr Loghman Ahmedi will kindly speak on Mr Hijri’s behalf in this debate.

The debate will bring together activists, representatives of Kurdish political parties, academics, British politicians and policy advisers, students and other interested parties. This event will analyse the situation of the Kurdish community in Iran, comparing it with that of the Kurdish communities of neighbouring countries, and look into possible ways to bring increased attention to Iranian Kurdistan, through cross-border and international strategies.

This event is kindly hosted by Mrs Emma Reynolds Labour MP for Wolverhampton North East.

Mr Gary Kent, Director of the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on the Kurdistan Region, will chair this forum.