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9 MAYIS AVRUPA GÜNÜ PANELİ:

ÇALKANTILI DÜNYADA AVRUPA’NIN GELECEĞİ VE TÜRKİYE

9 Mayıs 2019 Perşembe, 13.00-16.00

TOBB Plaza Konferans Salonu, Levent, İstanbul

Türkiye-AB Derneği (TURABDER) ve İktisadi Kalkınma Vakfı 9 Mayıs Avrupa Günü’nü beraber kutluyor. Avrupa’nın geleceği ve Türkiye ile ilişkileri başlıklı panelimizde, Avrupa Parlamentosu seçimleri öncesinde yükselen popülizm ile Avrupa’nın geleceği konusunda kaygılar, genişleme konusunda hakim olan suskunluğa karşın iki tarafın da zedelemek istemediği ekonomik ilişkiler ve önümüzdeki yıllarda da günlük hayatımızı etkilemeye devam edecek olan göç krizi ele alınacak. 9 Mayıs 2019 Perşembe Avrupa Günü’nde saat 13:30- 16:00 arası beraber olalım.

13.00-13.30 ​​Kayıt ve ikram

13:30 ​​​Açılış Konuşmaları: ​

Prof. Dr. Gül GÜNVER TURAN, TURABDER Başkanı

Ayhan ZEYTİNOĞLU, İKV Başkanı

13:50 ​​​Panel

Moderatör:  Doç. Dr. Zeynep ALEMDAR, TURABDER,  Okan Üniversitesi Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü Başkanı

Doç. Dr. Çiğdem NAS, İKV Genel Sekreteri, Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi

Prof. Dr. Sanem BAYKAL, Ankara Üniversitesi

Doç. Dr. Deniz ŞENOL SERT, TURABDER, Özyeğin Üniversitesi Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü

Sezin ÖNEY, Gazeteci

15.30-16.00 ​​Soru cevap

Kayıt için: Zuhal Yılmaz, İKV, Tel: 0212 2709300

TURABDER will be participating to this event with a panel on Turkey and by organizing a coffee booth.

ABOUT THE EVENT
For three days, in April 2019, the European Movement International is inviting you to a celebration of European democracy. Within the context of the Alliance for Democracy, and in partnership with the European Parliament, we are gathering decision-makers, organised civil society, business, trade unions, influencers, activists and, most importantly, citizens to take part in the leading European democracy festival in view of the European elections.

Inspired by the Nordic tradition of democracy festivals, DEMOCRACY ALIVE aims to encourage civic engagement and increase interest in European democracy.

WHY NOW
It is a challenging time for European cohesion, which is why we need to come together to prove that European ideals can reach beyond the corridors of Brussels and are relevant to every single European in their day-to-day lives. In order to bridge the gap between us citizens and our representatives, and to reinforce trust and optimism in the European project, we want to create a space where citizens, stakeholders and our elected representatives can come together and engage in dialogue on important issues that matter; be it on the environment, opportunities for the young, employment, human rights and/or the rule of law. Together we can energise citizens across Europe and greatly increase voter turnout in the 2019 elections by promoting the European Parliament’s #ThisTimeImVoting campaign.

We envision DEMOCRACY ALIVE as an open space where citizens and stakeholders, irrespective of their backgrounds and representations, will be able to hold their own events, debates, discussions, gigs, book readings, song contests, ping pong tournaments, silent disco’s – you name it! We are essentially facilitating a space for thousands of people to participate and communicate their views on democracy and Europe.

We will create a non-partisan arena for you and your organisation to share your message and vision for Europe. A part of the official programme will be created and curated by the European Movement International and the other organisations of the Alliance for Democracy, but the majority of events and debates will be organised by participating organisations. Moreover, we envisage that the festival, including all of its events, will be free of charge, ticket-less, and not require registration.

THE LOCATION: TEXEL, THE NETHERLANDS
DEMOCRACY ALIVE will take place on the beautiful Dutch island of Texel. We have chosen this location due to its ability to take us away from the usual Brussels bubble and bring us together in a non-traditional setting. Easy to reach, the island has all the elements needed for a successful event, including substantial local experience with large events, a wide range of accommodation options, and a dedicated local community who is excited to welcome us all to their home.

Wednesday 6th of February

Registration local organizers

11:00-17:00

City tour

12:00-15:30

Training for Strategic Planning

16:00-17:30

Opening ceremony

19:00-

Thursday 7th of February

Breakfast/Registration

08:00-09:00

Opening plenary

09:00-09:45

Words of welcome by presenters

Words of welcome Presidents of AEGEE-Europe

Roll Call

Presentation of the Agenda – content

Presentation of the Agenda – drafting

Presentation of the Safeperson project

Presentation of the Agenda of the day

Announcements of Local organizers.

Opening Symposium

09:50-11:20

Your first taste of the Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainability in a Divided World: Balances and Imbalances

Speakers:

Marie-Claire Graf

Prof. Gul Gunver Turan

Facilitator:

Anne-Sophie Klein Gebbink

Coffee break/Registration

11:20-11:45

Parallel slots I

11:45-13:15

Climate Change, Water and Food Security with respect to SDGs

Speaker: Tugba Agacayak

What the h*alth are you doing to my environment?

Speaker: Anne-Sophie Klein Gebbink

The link between gender roles and food security

Speaker: Equal Rights Working Group

Lunch/Registration

13:15-14:15

Prelude – welcoming song

14:30-15:45

Civic Education

Equal Rights

Youth Development

European Citizenship

Air – Initiating a storm of thoughts

16:15-17:45

Civic Education

Equal Rights

Youth Development

European Citizenship

Dinner

17:45-19:00

Social Program

21:00-

FRIDAY 8th of February

Breakfast

08:00-09:00

Think Tank: how can we make our cities more sustainable?

09:00-10:30

Coffee break

10:30-10:45

Parallel slots II

10:45-12:15

Solutions for sustainability: how can you contribute and how do we choose?

Moderator: Prof. Gul Gunver Turan

Sustainability debating competition

Civic Education Working Group

Social entrepreneurship & sustainability

Youth Development Working Group

Lunch

12:15-13:15

Fair

13:30-14:45

Water – Creating pool of ideas

14:45-16:00

Civic Education

Equal Rights

Youth Development

European Citizenship

Coffee break

16:00-16:30

Fire – Exchanging sparks of feedback

16:30-17:45

Dinner

17:45-19:00

Saturday 9th of February

Breakfast

08:00-09:00

Earth – Planting the roots of the forest

09:00-10:15

Civic Education

Equal Rights

Youth Development

European Citizenship

Parallel Slots III

10:15-10:30

Discourse on EU-Turkey relations

Speaker: Laura Batalla Adam

Zero waste: what is it and how do we get there?

Speaker: Kadri Kalle

The role of the ocean in a zero-emission world

Speaker: Nicola Grasso

Lunch

12:00-13:00

Closing Symposium

13:15-15:00

Panel discussion: the opportunities and challenges of sustai­nable development

Speakers:

Kadri Kalle

Nicola Grasso

Dilek Aydin

Facilitator:

Anne-Sophie Klein Gebbink

Coffee break

15:00-15:30

Closing Plenary

15:00-18:15

This Time I am Voting Presentation

Presentation of the content reporting

Presentation of the objectives of the AA 2019-2020

Questions

Commendations

Dinner

18:30-19:00

European Night

21:00-

Sunday 10th of February

Wake up/breakfast

09:00-10:00

Departure

10:00

Wednesday 6th of February

Registration local organizers

11:00-17:00

City tour

12:00-15:30

Training for Strategic Planning

16:00-17:30

Opening ceremony

19:00-

Thursday 7th of February

Breakfast/Registration

08:00-09:00

Opening plenary

09:00-09:45

Words of welcome by presenters

Words of welcome Presidents of AEGEE-Europe

Roll Call

Presentation of the Agenda – content

Presentation of the Agenda – drafting

Presentation of the Safeperson project

Presentation of the Agenda of the day

Announcements of Local organizers.

Opening Symposium

09:50-11:20

Your first taste of the Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainability in a Divided World: Balances and Imbalances

Speakers:

Marie-Claire Graf

Prof. Gul Gunver Turan

Facilitator:

Anne-Sophie Klein Gebbink

Coffee break/Registration

11:20-11:45

Parallel slots I

11:45-13:15

Climate Change, Water and Food Security with respect to SDGs

Speaker: Tugba Agacayak

What the h*alth are you doing to my environment?

Speaker: Anne-Sophie Klein Gebbink

The link between gender roles and food security

Speaker: Equal Rights Working Group

Lunch/Registration

13:15-14:15

Prelude – welcoming song

14:30-15:45

Civic Education

Equal Rights

Youth Development

European Citizenship

Air – Initiating a storm of thoughts

16:15-17:45

Civic Education

Equal Rights

Youth Development

European Citizenship

Dinner

17:45-19:00

Social Program

21:00-

FRIDAY 8th of February

Breakfast

08:00-09:00

Think Tank: how can we make our cities more sustainable?

09:00-10:30

Coffee break

10:30-10:45

Parallel slots II

10:45-12:15

Solutions for sustainability: how can you contribute and how do we choose?

Moderator: Prof. Gul Gunver Turan

Sustainability debating competition

Civic Education Working Group

Social entrepreneurship & sustainability

Youth Development Working Group

Lunch

12:15-13:15

Fair

13:30-14:45

Water – Creating pool of ideas

14:45-16:00

Civic Education

Equal Rights

Youth Development

European Citizenship

Coffee break

16:00-16:30

Fire – Exchanging sparks of feedback

16:30-17:45

Dinner

17:45-19:00

Saturday 9th of February

Breakfast

08:00-09:00

Earth – Planting the roots of the forest

09:00-10:15

Civic Education

Equal Rights

Youth Development

European Citizenship

Parallel Slots III

10:15-10:30

Discourse on EU-Turkey relations

Speaker: Laura Batalla Adam

Zero waste: what is it and how do we get there?

Speaker: Kadri Kalle

The role of the ocean in a zero-emission world

Speaker: Nicola Grasso

Lunch

12:00-13:00

Closing Symposium

13:15-15:00

Panel discussion: the opportunities and challenges of sustai­nable development

Speakers:

Kadri Kalle

Nicola Grasso

Dilek Aydin

Facilitator:

Anne-Sophie Klein Gebbink

Coffee break

15:00-15:30

Closing Plenary

15:00-18:15

This Time I am Voting Presentation

Presentation of the content reporting

Presentation of the objectives of the AA 2019-2020

Questions

Commendations

Dinner

18:30-19:00

European Night

21:00-

Sunday 10th of February

Wake up/breakfast

09:00-10:00

Departure

10:00

 

Metin Gurcan, PhD, attended a conference in Antalya on December 7 organized by the European Citizenship Working Group of AEGEE Europe, one of the biggest interdisciplinary association across Europe gathering 13.000 members on 40 countries. The objective of the conference was to understand how and if young people are suffering from mobility barriers in Europe.

Concentrating on the security-mobility-privacy trilemma, Metin Gurcan delivered a talk at the conference elucidating the diverse experiences of mobility and the multiple vulnerabilities experienced by individuals that intersect with, and sometimes challenge, national security domains.

Indeed, developing and maintaining the European Union as an area of freedom, security and unrestricted mobility is a fundamental objective of the EU and is at the heart of EU citizens’ interests. In order to achieve this objective, one of the key challenges member states must overcome is the development of a coherent approach to safeguarding and promoting security, mobility and privacy within the EU. In many occasions however the simultaneous fulfillment of these three aims seems unachievable; and security, mobility and privacy are instead presented as mutually exclusive or antagonistic pursuits. In fact, the reality is rather more nuanced, and steps taken to improve specifically security, mobility or privacy can often also provide potential to leverage improvements in other areas. The key political question is whether and how the relationship between these concepts is likely to change over the coming years; and how national governments and the EU seek to communicate and explain such change.

To better understand the visa restrictions and limitations over mobility, Gurcan then underlined the changing nature of security. Security as a concept in our region has widened to an extent that even domains such as information technologies, cyber domain, traveling and transportation, money transfers, criminal issues like transnational smuggling, organized crime, human trafficking, and refugee crisis, pandemics, mass migrations, and natural disasters like droughts and earthquakes are defined within the concept of security and to a certain extent all these militarized. Security has also deepened in a sense that traditional state-centric understanding has got blurred and we are talking about human and global security as well. Finding a golden balance and harmony among these three seems hardly possible.

He then underlined that it is not always easy to define what we mean by security, mobility. Essentially, mobility here refers to the ease with which individuals can move across national boundaries for legitimate purposes; security means the safeguards in place to protect Member States; people and property; and privacy is defined in Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) as the respect for private and family life, home and correspondence. It is easy to understand why these concepts are often viewed as antagonistic: indeed, some elements appear explicitly to incorporate “trade-offs”. For example, Article 8 EU Court of Human rights acknowledges restrictions to privacy are necessary in the interests of national security and public safety, to prevent disorder or crime, or to protect the rights and freedoms of others. Furthermore, a common response to improving security in an increasingly mobile society is to require personal data from travellers in advance of their journeys and to strengthen borders and reduce crossing points, potentially impacting upon both privacy and mobility.

 

The Ninth Bosphorus  Summit took place between November 25-28,  2018 at the Four Seasons’ Bosphorus Hotel in Istanbul.  The program can be found at  https://www.bogazicizirvesi.org/files/9.BZ_Program_Tr-26112018-v1.1.pdf . One of the many panels organized concerned the EU and was entitled The EU in Search of Visions. The panel was organized and moderated by Turabder’s president Prof. Dr. Gül Günver Turan.

THE EU IN SEARCH OF VISIONS

November 27 , 2018 (14:00 – 15:00) (ROOM B)

KeynoteSpeakers 

Amb. Faruk Kaymakçı, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs & Director for EU Affairs, Turkey

Amb. George Ciamba, Minister of EU Affairs, Romania

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Gül Günver Turan, President, TURABDER, Turkey

Panelists

Prof. Dr. Sanem Baykal, Faculty of Law, Ankara University, Turkey

Metin Gürcan, Co-founder , Episteme, Turkey

Nilgün Arısan Eralp, Center Director, TEPAV, Turkey

Nora Neuteboom, Economist, ABN AMRO’s Group Economics, The Netherlands

The Turkish Policy Quarterly (TPQ) organized a roundtable on Turkey-EU Relations which took  place on Tuesday, October 9th at the Netherlands Consulate at the Palais de Hollande. The topics of the panel moderated by TURABDER’s president included key issues on the agenda: visa exemption for Turkish citizens, updating the Customs Union, security cooperation, and maintaining a constructive dialogue on Turkey’s reform agenda. The program was as follows

Program:

5:00-5:30pm – Registration

5:30-5:40pm – Opening Remarks by Marjanne de Kwaasteniet, the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Turkey

5:40-7:00pm – Panel Presentation

7:00-7:30pm – Q&A Discussion

Moderator:

Gül Günver Turan, President, Turkey-European Union Association

Speakers:

Ayhan Zeytinoğlu (TBC), President, Economic Development Foundation

Zümrüt İmamoğlu (TBC), Chief Economist, TÜSİAD

Metin Gürcan, Researcher, Istanbul Policy Center

Samuel Vesterbye, Managing Director of ENC