The Abant Platform, a prominent discussion forum known for dealing with pressing issues challenging Turkey, will hold its second conference on the Kurdish issue in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil on Feb. 15 and 16.
The opening speech of the meeting will be given by the prime minister of the regional Kurdish administration, Nechirvan Barzani. The meeting is co-organized by the Abant Platform, a sub-organization of the Journalists and Writers Association, Arbil’s Salahaddin University and the Mukriyani Institute. Arbil Gov. Nevzad Hadi Mawlood will also be among the speakers at the opening session of the meeting. Nearly 100 intellectuals and representatives of NGOs are expected to attend the meeting of the platform, which seeks to find a solution to the Kurdish issue with different perspectives.
The two-day meeting will feature four sessions titled "Assessment of the Situation," "Common Cultural Values and the Future," "Mutual Dependence and Opportunities" and "Perspectives for the Future." Shirzad al-Najjar, an international law professor at Salahaddin University and counselor for higher education in the cabinet of the regional administration; Associate Professor İbrahim Kalın, chairman of the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA) and a columnist from Today's Zaman.
Kalın, Ferit Eserset, Halit Salih and Ali Bulaç will deliver their speeches in the first session. In the second session, Rashad Miran from the College of Education of Scientific Humanities at Salahaddin University; an influential journalist and organizer of the Hope Project, Halkawt Abdullah; researcher Murat Hekim; Bejan Matur; and Işık University Rector Salih Hoşoğlu will speak.
On the second day of the conference, Mehmet Altan, Galip Ensarioğlu, Nasuhi Güngör and Abdurrahman Sıdık are going to deliver their opinions on the issue. Professor Eser Karakaş, Sami Soreş, Altan Tan and Cengiz Çandar are also the lecturers of the last section. Professor Mümtaz'er Türköne, an organizer of the event, had previously told the Zaman daily that the meeting was aimed at bringing Turkey's intellectual richness to the region.
14 February 2009, Saturday
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