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