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European Islamophobia Report 2018 | #EIR2018

European Islamophobia Report 2018 | #EIR2018

27 September 2019 | European Studies

Publication of the “European Islamophobia Report 2018” on the European week of action against Islamophobia …

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17oct13:00- 16:00Opening Ceremony of the “European Islamophobia Report 2018” Project #EIR2018

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Etkinlik Detayı

Succeeding the reports of 2015, 2016 and 2017, SETA published recently the European Islamophobia Report” (EIR) 2018, which provides country-specific surveys on the development of Islamophobia in 34 European countries. Widely ignored and misunderstood, Islamophobia undermines the life of millions of Muslim citizens, weakens domestic security and strengthens the rise of xenophobic and racist groups in Europe. Within this framework, SETA will organize a panel on 17^th of October, 2019 in its Ankara office in order to share the main findings in the EIR 2018 with the public.

In the first part of the event there be will an opening ceremony for the EIR 2018 project, which is supported by the Civil Society Dialogue Programme co-financed by the European Union (EU) and Republic of Turkey under Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA). In this part, SETA General Coordinator Prof. Dr. Burhanettin Duran, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Director of EU Affairs H.E. Ambassador Faruk Kaymakcı will share their thoughts on Islamophobia.

In the second part of the event, the main findings in the EIR 2018 will be discussed. This part will be moderated by Enes Bayraklı, Coordinator of SETA Brussels Office and co-editor of the EIR. Following his remarks, Farid Hafez, researcher at Salzburg University and co-editor of the EIR, will provide information on the main findings of EIR 2018. Later on Leyla Yıldırım from İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim University and Ali Hüseyinoğlu from Trakya University will respectively talk about Islamophobia in the Netherlands and Greece.

We would be honoured to have you at our event.

Notice: The panel is open to all participants and simultaneous translation will be provided.

For further information: Mehmet Boyraz, mboyraz@setav.org and Léonard Faytre, lfaytre@setav.org

Zaman

(Perşembe) 13:00 - 16:00

Organizer

Mehmet Boyraz and Léonard Faytre mboyraz@setav.org , lfaytre@setav.org

Moderatörler (Birden fazla moderatör varsa alt alta yazınız)

OPENING CEREMONY

Time: 13.00-14.00

Prof. Dr. Burhanettin Duran, SETA General Coordinator

Ambassador Faruk Kaymakcı, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Director of EU Affairs

PRESENTATION OF THE EUROPEAN ISLAMOPHOBIA REPORT 2018

Time: 14.00-16.00

Moderator: Enes Bayraklı, SETA Brussels

Konuşmacılar (Birden fazla konuşmacı varsa varsa alt alta yazınız)

Speakers:

Farid Hafez, Salzburg University and Georgetown University Bridge Initiative

Leyla Yıldırım, İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim University

Ali Hüseyinoğlu, Trakya University

24oct18:00- 20:00Panel: Child Soldiers of the PKK - YPG

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Etkinlik Detayı

On October 24, 2019, SETA Brussels will organize a panel entitled “The Child Soldiers of the PKK-YPG” between 18.00 and 20.00 in Brussels. The panel will draw attention to the issue of the PKK’s and YPG’s recruitment of children under the age of 18 in Turkey and Syria.

Time and again many international human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and UNICEF report on the desolate issue of armed child soldiers serving in different geographical regions of the Middle East. They reveal the distracting extent of the radicalization and recruitment of minors who are influenced by recruiters trying to involve children in their terrorist structures.

Recently, mothers of children from Turkey’s southeastern city of Diyarbakır started a sit-in protest in front of the headquarters of the HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party). The mothers demand that the HDP, a political party which is represented in parliament and still keeps close ties to the internationally recognized terrorist organization PKK, bring their recruited children back home.

In order to discuss the burning issue of child recruitment in Turkey and Syria from a social, political, legal, and academic perspective, SETA Brussels has invited academics, experts, and a human rights activist who is a former member of the PKK terrorist group to our panel entitled “The Child Soldiers of the PKK-YPG.” Seeking to also give a platform to the suffering families who have lost their children to the PKK and YPG, a representative of the mothers from Diyarbakır will join and explain their situation on the micro level.

The panel will be opened by a keynote speech by the representative of Diyarbakır mothers whose children have been kidnapped and recruited by the terrorist organization PKK. Dr. Enes Bayraklı, SETA Brussels coordinator, will lead the panel in the company of Aytekin Yılmaz, a former member of the PKK and author of the books Yoldaşını Öldürmek (Killing One’s Own Comrade) and Onlar Daha Çocuktu (They Were Still Children); Talha Köse, chair and associate professor of Political Science at Ibn Haldun University with a main focus on radicalization and extremism; Eva Savelsberg, chairperson of the Berlin-based European Center for Kurdish Studies and staff member of the website www.kurdwatch.org; and Kyle Orton, a researcher on Syria and terrorism.

English-Turkish simultaneous interpretation will be provided. Registration for the event is open until October 22, 2019 and is available via email (brussels@setav.org). The number of participants is limited.

Zaman

(Perşembe) 18:00 - 20:00

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Seta Brussels

Avenue des Arts 27, 1040 Brussels, Belgium

Moderatörler (Birden fazla moderatör varsa alt alta yazınız)

Enes Bayraklı, SETA Brussels Coordinator and Director of SETA European Studies Department

Konuşmacılar (Birden fazla konuşmacı varsa varsa alt alta yazınız)

Keynote Speaker: Representative of Diyarbakır Mothers

Panelists:

Aytekin Yılmaz, Author and Human Rights Activist

Eva Savelsberg, Chairperson of European Center for Kurdish Studies

Kyle Orton, Researcher on Syria and Terrorism

Talha Köse, Associate Professor at Ibn Haldun University