EU Parliament hosts 6th Kurdish conference
Ararat News-Publishing (ANP) – Brussels, Anahit Sarkisian, Roni Alasor - 3 February 2010 –– EU hosts once again a Kurdish-Turkish conference under “Political dialogue & Peace-building”. The aim of the conference is to bring together Kurdish politicians from Turkey, members of the European Parliament and officials from the European Commission, diplomats, human rights defenders, academics, lawyers, journalists and experts to find a solution to the Kurdish issue in Turkey.
6th International Conference on "EU, Turkey and the Kurds" will take place in the European Parliament in Brussels on 3-4 February 2010. This year the main topic of the discussion is "Turkey and the Kurdish conflict: Political dialogue & Peace-building". The conference will bring together Kurdish politicians from Turkey, members of the European Parliament and officials from the European Commission, diplomats, human rights defenders, academics, lawyers, journalists and experts on the Kurdish issue.
The conference is organized by EU Turkey Civic Commission (EUTCC) with the support of the Group of the European United Left / Nordic Green Left. Official patrons of the events are prominent world human rights fighters and intellectuals: 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), Leyla Zana (European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, Rafto Prize Laureate, Turkey).
The conference will be opened on Wednesday by Leyla Zana, EP Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought and Rafto Prize Laureate from Turkey, Lothar Bisky, Chair of the European United Left / Nordic Green Left from Germany and Ahmet Turk, former Co-Chair of Democratic Society Party (DTP), Turkey.
Among the speakers in the first panel on recent peace initiatives in Turkey will be the American professor Michael Gunter, the journalist Hasan Cemal and Emine Ayna, parliamentarian from the Kurdish Peace and Democracy party (BDP).
During the second conference day the discussions will continue with review of the EU-Turkey Accession Progress, Human Rights and Democratization with the interventions of the journalist Oral Calislar, prof. Dogu Ergil from the Ankara University in Turkey and Kurdish and European politicians.
The initiator of the conference EUTCC was established in 2004 in order to monitor the progress of Turkey in the democratisation reforms. It advocates peaceful solution of the Kurdish question and respect of the human rights in Turkey
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