The Democratic Congress of People (HDK) will organize a Middle East Forum in Istanbul today.

Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Co-Chair Gültan Kýþanak, academics Abbas Vali and Gençay Gürsoy and journalists Nuray Mert, Faik Bulut, Hüseyin Aykol, Cengiz Çandar, Aslý Aydýntaþbaþ and Aydýn Çubukçu will have a speech in the forum focusing on Turkey and the Kurdish issue in the framework of the situation in the Middle East.

The forum will take place, in Taksim Hill Hotel today between 10.00 and 18.00.