Livestream recording - 2016-03-03 -
While tens of thousands of refugees come to Turkey in flight of Aleppo’s siege, Turkish Kurds are fleeing eastern Turkey itself. Hundreds of civilians have lost their lives in the past few months in the turmoil that has scarred the south-east of the country. Journalists who criticize the government are being silenced. Is there still a free democracy in Turkey? And to what extent can these developments be brought back to the ambition of one man; Recep Tayyip Erdoğan?
Karabekir Akkoyunlu, Turkey-expert and professor at the university of Graz, gives a lecture on the recent political developments in Turkey. In the elections last summer, the AKP (Erdoğan’s party) lost an absolute majority for the first time in thirteen years. In contrast, the left HDP (which originated from the Kurdish movement) managed to reach the high 10% threshold for entering parliament. Erdoğan quickly undid this ‘defeat’ with re-elections in November. With it, the fragile peace with the PKK (the Kurdish guerilla movement) went up in flames. So what is going on in the Turkish center of power? Is Erdoğan truly the new ‘sultan’?
Through Skype we will talk with journalist Fréderike Geerdink. For years she reported from Diyarbakir, south-eastern Turkey, on the Turkish Kurds and their struggle in the region – until she was accused of ‘terrorist propaganda’ for her work. She was arrested twice and eventually expelled from the country. She now lives in Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq. With her we will go deeper into the oppression of the press in Turkey. We will also talk with Europarliamentarian and Turkey-reporter Kati Piri. She traveled through the country last December in preparation of a new progress report on human rights, freedom of press and the independence of judiciary in Turkey. While the country’s democracy is deteriorating, Brussels responds with chilling silence. The refugee crisis has to be solved and it is obvious who the EU needs to solve it. Are human rights losing ground to ‘Fortress Europe’?
Composer Selim Doğru made especially for this edition of the Middle-East Report the mini-opera Walking in Ignorance is…. about the interrelationship between the suffering of the people in the Middle East and the interests of the political super powers. With i.a. soprano Aylin Sezer and the reART World Music Choir.
With Karabekir Akkoyunlu (professor Modern Turkey at the university of Graz), Fréderike Geerdink (journalist and author of The boys are dead (2014)) and Kati Piri (Europarliamentarian for the PvdA and Turkey-reporter).
Presentation by Mirthe Frese and Bahram Sadeghi
Language: English
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