Second International Conference on EU Turkey and the Kurds

For the second time the Rafto Foundation, in collaboration with Kurdish Human Rights Project (UK), medico international (Germany) and Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales, will arrange a two-day conference, September 19 – 20, 2005, debating the Turkish accession process to the EU. The conference in Brussels will focus on the human rights situation in Turkey, especially focusing on the conditions for the Kurdish people.

The Conference will gather prominent Kurdish and Turkish representatives from different political and civil organisations as well as MEP's, European politicians, academics and writers. Nobel Peace Prize laureates Archbishop Desmund Tutu and Shirin Ebadi will be patrons of the Conference along with Goodwill Ambassador of the Council of Europe Bianca Jagger and the writer Harold Pinter. The conference will discuss important human rights issues as well as democratic and parliamentary reforms in Turkey.

Read the program here