"WHAT TURKEY? WHAT EUROPE?" SEMINAR HELD IN SALZBURG
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May 10 2010
Armenia
"What Turkey? What Europe?" is the name of a seminar opened in
Salzburg, Austria, on May 9. The seminar was organized by the Salzburg
Global Seminar.
Among the participants are: Wolfgang Ischinger (Co-Chair) —
Chairman, Munich Security Conference, Germany; Suleyman Ozdem Sanberk
(Co-Chair), Former Ambassador to the EU and the UK, and Former
Director of the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation,
Istanbul; Elif Sözen-Kohl (Co-Chair), Chief Investment Officer and
Director, Eagle Advisors Ltd., Geneva, Switzerland; Monika Kalista
(Guest Lecturer) — Government of the Province of Salzburg; Stefan
Lehne (Guest Lecturer) — Political Director, Federal Ministry for
European and International Affairs of Austria; Ziya Akkurt, CEO and
Board Member, Akbank, Istanbul; Yves Doutriaux, Member of the Council
of State (Conseil d’Etat); former Deputy Permanent Representative of
France to the United Nations; Paris David Hannay — Member, House
of Lords, Parliament of the United Kingdom, London; Haluk Ilicak,
Deputy Secretary General for EU Affairs, Ankara; Suat Kiniklioglu,
Member of Parliament and Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee,
Turkish Grand National Assembly; AK Party Deputy Chairman of External
Affairs, Ankara; Michael Leigh, Director-General for Enlargement,
European Commission, Brussels; Gulseren Onanc — President of
Women Entrepreneurs Association KADIGER; Hugh Pope — Turkey/Cyprus
Project Director, International Crisis Center, Istanbul; Albert Rohan,
Rapporteur, Independent Commission on Turkey; former Secretary-General
for Foreign Affairs of Austria, Vienna; Claudia Roth — Chairwoman,
Alliance 90/The Greens, Berlin; George Vassiliou, Former President
of the Republic of Cyprus; former Chief negotiator to the European
Union; Yurdakul Yigitguden, Consultant, Former Undersecretary of
Energy, Ankara.
The only Armenian participant is Ashot Grigoryan, Chairman of the
Armenian Unions Forum of Europe. At the opening ceremony, Grigoryan
outlined the issues he had prepared for discussions, particularly
the present and future of the Armenian-Turkish protocols, admission
of the Armenian Genocide by Turkey, reopening of the Armenian-Turkish
border, development of relations with the South Caucasus, particularly
with Azerbaijan.