The judicial system under the state of emergency in Turkey

Invitation to the international conference – (13.), 14 and 15 January 2017, Ankara Ankara Plaza Hotel, Kavaklıdere Bestekar Sk. No: 5 06680 Çankaya

PROGRAM:

Opening: Bill Bowring, The President of ELDH – Pascale Taelman – The President of EDL-AED

14.01.2017 – SATURDAY / 09.30-10.45

The rights, duties and the repression faced by Bar Associations and their members under State of Emergency

Moderator: Mengücek Gazi Çıtırık

Speakers:

Ahmet Özmen – The president of Diyarbakır Bar Association
Hakan Canduran – The president of Ankara Bar Association
Polat Balkan– The president of Antalya Bar Association
Veli Küçük – The president of Adana Bar Association
Gürkan Altun – The president of Bursa Bar Association
Robert Sabata – Barcelona Bar Association
11.15 – 13.00

Under the State of Emergency: The guarentess for the independence, impartiality of Judges

Moderator: İlhan Cihaner / Murat Aydın

Speakers:

Orhan Gazi Ertekin
Leyla Tarhan Köksal
Mustafa Karadağ
Ingrid Heinlein
LUNCH (13.00 – 14.00)

14.00 – 15.45

State of Emergency and the Media

Moderator: Gökçer Tahincioğlu

Speakers:

Zeynep Yüncüler
Erdem Gül
Cem Gurbetoğlu
Kenan Kırkaya
16.00 – 17.45

Being of a lawyer under the State of Emergency

Moderator: Ayşe Acinikli

Speakers:

Selçuk Kozağaçlı – ÇHD
Özgür Erol – ÖHD
Thomas Schmidt – ELDH
Pascale Taelman – AED
Hans Gaasbeek – Day of the Endangered Lawyer Foundation
Jan Fermon – IADL
Barbara Spinelli – ELDH/GD

15.01.2017 -SUNDAY:

09.30 – 10.45

The legislative prerogative under the state of emergency and parliamentary immunity

Moderator: Ali Haydar Hakverdi

Speakers:

Meral Danış Beştaş
Şenal Sarıhan
Filiz Kerestecioğlu
İlhan Cihaner
Mithat Sancar
11.00 – 13.00

Practices of Anti-Teror, State of Emergency and State of Siege in Turkey and in the World.

Speakers:

Berke Özenç
Şebnem Korur Fincancı
Cihan Aydın
Clemens Lahner – ELDH
Florian Borg – AED

Organisations:

INTERNATIONAL:

CO-ORGANIZER

  • European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (ELDH)
  • European Democratic Lawyers (EDL-AED)
  • International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL)
  • The Day of the Endangered Lawyers Foundation

SUPPORTERS

  • MEDEL
  • NRV Neue Richtervereinigung (New Judges Organisation)
  • IDHAE World Observatory for Defense Rights and Attacks Against Lawyers
  • Barcelona Bar Association
  • Padova Bar Association
  • Palermo Bar Association

TURKEY:

– Bar Associations:

Adana, Adıyaman, Ağrı, Ankara, Antalya, Batman, Bingöl, Bitlis, Diyarbakır, Hakkari, Muş, Siirt, Şanlıurfa, Şırnak, Tunceli, Van, Bursa, Iğdır, Kars-Ardahan, Mardin

– Judges Organizations:

Democrat Judges Associations

Syndicat of Judges

– Lawyers and Human Rights Defenders Without Borders in Turkey

– The association of forensic science expert