The Judicial System under the State of Emergency in Turkey is an international conference, which will be held on the 14th and 15th of January 2017 in Ankara, at the Ankara Plaza Hotel, Kavaklidere Bestekar Sk. No: 5 06680 Çankaya.
The conference is organized by the:
• European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights, www.eldh.eu
• European Democratic Lawyers, http://www.aeud.org/
• International Association of Democratic Lawyers, http://www.iadllaw.org/newsite/
• The Day of the Endangered Lawyers Foundation, http://dayoftheendangeredlawyer.eu
• Together with the 19 Bar Associtions of the following Turkish cities: Ankara, Adana, Adiyaman, Agn, Antalya, Batman, Bingöl, Bitlis, Diyarbakir, Hakkari, Igdir, Kars-Ardahan, Mardin, Mus, Siirt, Sanliurfa, Sirnak, Tunceli, Van (some other Bar Associations in Turkey will suport the conference.)
• and judges’ Associations: Democratic Judges, The Syndicat of Judges
• The platform of Lawyers against State of Emergency: The platform of 11 different lawyer group
and has the following program
14.01.2017 – SATURDAY
Opening: Bill Bowring, The President of ELDH – Pascale Taelman – The President of EDL-AED
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 guarantee for the independence and 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-Terror, 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