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 Çitirik

Speakers:

• Ahmet Özmen – The president of Diyarbak?r 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: Ilhan Cihaner / Murat Aydin

Speakers:

• Orhan Gazi Ertekin
• Leyla Tarhan Köksal
• Mustafa Karadag
• Ingrid Heinlein

LUNCH (13.00 – 14.00)

14.00 – 15.45

  State of Emergency and the Media

Moderator: Gökçer Tahincioglu

Speakers:

• Zeynep Yüncüler
• Erdem Gül
• Cem Gurbetoglu
• Kenan Kirkaya

16.00 – 17.45

  Being of a lawyer under the State of Emergency

Moderator: Ayse Acinikli

Speakers:

• Selçuk Kozagaçli – 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 Danis Bestas
• Senal Sarihan
• Filiz Kerestecioglu      
• Ilhan 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
• Sebnem Korur Fincanci
• Cihan Aydin
• 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, Adiyaman, Agri, Ankara, Antalya, Batman, Bingöl, Bitlis, Diyarbakir, Hakkari, Mus, Siirt, Sanliurfa, Sirnak, Tunceli, Van, Bursa, Igdir, 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