Queens University in Belfast is organizing a conference titled "The Kurdish Question in Turkey" on Wednesday 17 April. The conference will run from  9am to 5.30pm.
This multidisciplinary conference will bring together legal experts, academics, politicians, journalists and grassroots activists with first hand experience to ignite debate on the Kurdish question in Turkey.
Speakers include Peace in Kurdistan patron and human rights lawyer Margaret Owen; human rights lawyer in Turkey Mr Ercan Kanar; Turkish scholars Prof Nazan Ustundag and Prof Sevtap Yokus; among others.

Conference Programme
09:00 -09:30
Registration
and Welcome Speech
09:30-11:15
Panel Discussion: Victimization of Kurds by the Current Turkish Law
Prof Nazan Ustundag (Professor at the University Bogazici, Turkey)
Ms Reyhan Yalcindag (Lawyer and Member of HRAHC)
Ms Hannah Russell (PhD Student at Queen’s University, Belfast)
11:30-13:00
Panel Discussion: Democracy Deferred, the Continuing Challenges–Political Trials, Identity and Human Rights
Mr Ercan Kanar (Human Rights lawyer in Turkey)
Mr Desmond Fernandes (Scholar of genocide studies)
Mr Dennis Arbet Nejbir (PhD Student at Queen’s University, Belfast)
14:00-15:30
Panel Discussion: The New Constitution–What DemocraticLegitimacy?
Dr Darren Dinsmore (Lecturer at University of Kent, England)
Prof Sevtap Yokus (Professor at University of Kocaeli, Turkey)
Ms Margaret Owen (Barrister with Bar Human Rights Committee)
15:45-17:15
Panel Discussion: Constructive and Peaceful Solution to the Kurdish Question in Turkey
Ms Havin Guneser (Member of Kurdish National Congress)
Mr. Selahattin Demirtas (Chair of Peace and Democracy Party, Turkey)