List of wise people announced
List of wise people announced
List of wise people announced
The Turkish government has announced the list of wise people who would actively join the efforts for the establishment of of an environment where a just and lasting peace could be reached. The list is made up of 63 people, but Confederation of Revolutionary Workers' Unions President Erol Ekici has said he did not accept to be on the list.
Mediterranean region
1. Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodities Exchanges President Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu (Chairman)
2. Actress Lale Mansur (Deputy chairwoman)
3. General coordinator of Ekopolitik Tarık Çelenk (Secretary)
4. Actor Kadir İnanır
5. Writer Nihal Bengisu Karaca
6. Former Kayseri Mayor Şükrü Karatepe
7. Kurdish intellectual Muhsin Kızılkaya
8. President of the Human Rights Association Öztürk Türkdoğan
9. Academic Hüseyin Yayman
Eastern region
1. Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation President Can Paker (Chairman)
2. Writer Sibel Erarslan (Deputy chairwoman)
3. Civilian Solidarity Platform President Ayhan Ogan (Secretary)
4. Confederation of Turkish Real Trade Unions President Mahmut Arslan
5. Journalist Abdurrahman Dilipak
6. Cem Foundation President İzzettin Doğan
7. Former deputy Abdurrahman Kurt
8. Association for Inmates' Families' Solidarity President Zübeyde Teker
9. Lawyer Mehmet Uçum
Aegean region
1. Chairman of Turkish polling company KONDA Tarhan Erdem (Chairman)
2. Journalist Avni Özgürel (Deputy chairman)
3. Doğan group's executive board chairperson Arzuhan Doğan Yalçındoğan (Secretary)
4. Turkish Bar Association President Vedat Ahsen Coşar
5. Confederation of Revolutionary Workers' Unions President Erol Ekici
6. Writer Hilal Kaplan
7. Academic Fuat Keyman
8. Writer Fehmi Koru
9. Academic Baskın Oran
Southeastern region
1. Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research director Yılmaz Ensaroğlu (Chairman)
2. Lawyer Kezban Hatemi (Deputy chairwoman)
3. Former deputy Mehmet Emin Ekmen (Secretary)
4. Academic Murat Belge
5. Academic Fazıl Hüsnü Erdem
6. Director Yılmaz Erdoğan
7. Writer Etyen Mahçupyan
8. Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions President Lami Özgen
9. Association of Human Rights and Solidarity for Oppressed Peoples President Ahmet Faruk Ünsal
Central Anatolian region
1. Writer Ahmet Taşgetiren (Chairman)
2. Beril Dedeoğlu (Deputy chairwoman)
3. Journalists and Writers Foundation Secretary-General Cemal Uşşak (Secretary)
4. Academic Vahap Coşkun
5. Academic Doğu Ergil
6. Academic Erol Göka
7. Turkish Confederation of Labor Unions President Mustafa Kumlu
8. Journalist Fadime Özkan
9. 78ers Union President Celalettin Can
Marmara region
1. Academic Deniz Ülke Arıboğan (Chairwoman)
2. Academic Mithat Sancar (Deputy chairman)
3. Academic Levent Korkut (Secretary)
4. Historian Mustafa Armağan
5. Writer Ali Bayramoğlu
6. Civil Servants' Trade Union Chairman Ahmet Gündoğdu
7. Theologian Hayrettin Karaman
8. Artist Hülya Koçyiğit
9. Academic Yücel Sayman
Black Sea region
1. Academic Yusuf Şevki Hakyemez (Chairman)
2. Academic Vedat Bilgin (Deputy chairman)
3. Lawyer Fatma Benli (Secretary)
4. Turkish Union of Agricultural Chambers President Şemsi Bayraktar
5. Writer Kürşat Bumin
6. Writer Oral Çalışlar
7. Singer Orhan Gencebay
8. Journalist Yıldıray Oğur
9. Turkish Tradesmen's and Artisans' Confederation Chairman Bendevi Palandöken