FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE EU TURKEY AND THE KURDS

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FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE EU, TURKEY AND THE KURDS Dorset Fellow in Public International Law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law for three years. Prior to that appointment she was a lecturer in international law and human rights at Queen’s University Belfast where she assisted in the administration of their LLM in Human Rights Programs and she has also lectured on the law of armed conflict in the LLM program at the London School of Economics. Prior to embarking on an academic career, Dr. Breau was a Barrister and Solicitor in Kingston, Ontario for 18 years specializing in family and children’s law. Jonathan Fryer Jonathan Fryer (born 5 June 1950), is a British writer, lecturer and broadcaster as well as a Liberal Democrat politician. He is currently Chairman of Liberal International British Group and the No. 2 candidate on the LibDem London list for the European parliamentary elections (June 2009). Eurig Wyn Eurig Wyn is a Welsh politician. He was a Plaid Cymru member of the European Parliament for Wales from 1999 to 2004, when he lost his seat in part due to a reduction of the number of seats that Wales had. He had previously been a journalist for the BBC.During 2005, Eurig Wyn was selected as Plaid Cymru’s parliamentary candidate for the Ynys Môn constituency. Prior to his selection, Eurig Wyn had spent about a year building up a profile in Ynys Môn with a view to eventually taking the seat back from the Labour Party, following Plaid Cymru’s loss in 2001. The seat was the party’s key target seat in the 2005 General Election; however, Plaid had their proportion of the vote reduced and the Labour Party held on to it, all main parties saw their vote fall due to independent candidate, Peter Rogers, who came 3rd and took a large share of the vote. Mark Muller QC Mark Muller is a barrister, currently with Garden Court Chambers. Muller was Head of Chambers at 10-11 Gray’s Inn Square from 1998 -2006. He is also a Vice-president of the Bar Human rights Committee (BHRC) and Chair of the Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP). He mainly specialises in international human rights and criminal related litigation. Mark Muller has conducted a multitude of cases before the European court of human rights, including Abdulla Öcalan v. Turkey and Issa & Others v. Turkey. He has also provided advice and representation in human rights related actions brought before the European Court of Justice of the European Union. Mark Muller has been instrumental in devising and providing ECHR training to lawyers throughout Europe, including Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and has published 202
FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE EU, TURKEY AND THE KURDS fact finding and trial observations reports detailing the systematic abuse of human rights in the Kurdish areas of Turkey, as well as numerous legal reports and a book entitled ‘The Kurdish Nationalist Movement in the 1990’s. Adem Uzun Adem Uzun graduated from University of Cologne as an Electronic Engineer in 1991. During his student years he became active in the Kurdish social and political struggle. For the democratic resolution of the Kurdish question, he took part in many activities, conferences and organisations. He is currently member of the Executive Council of Kurdistan National Congress (KNK), founded in 1999. Dirk Rochtus Dirk Rochtus (°1961, Bornem/Belgium) studied Germanic Philology and International Relations at the universities of Bonn (Germany) and Antwerpen (Belgium). In 1996 he wrote his doctoral dissertation on “The Third Way in the German Democratic Republic 1989/90”. He teaches International Relations and German history at the Lessius University College in Antwerpen (Belgium), a college associated to the KU Leuven University (www.lessius.eu). In 2002 Rochtus taught as guest professor a summer course European history at METU University Ankara. He publishes about the foreign policy of Germany and Turkey, Belgian federalism and issues related to nationalism. He regularly writes op-eds for Flemish daily newspapers.From 2005 until 2007 he was deputy chief of cabinet foreign policy of the Flemish minister of Foreign Policy. His main book publications are:“Zicht op Duitsland’ (Leuven/Apeldoorn 1994) (co-editor with Jan De Piere,“Das Konzept des ‘dritten Weges’ in der DDR 1989/90” (Leipzig 1999), “Turkije: Springstof voor de Europese Unie?” (Antwerpen/Apeldoorn 2002) (co-editor with Gerrit De Vylder and Veli Yüksel), “European and Turkish Voices in Favour and Against Turkish Accession to the European Union” (P.IE. Peter Lang, Brussels 2007) (co-editor with Christiane Timmerman and Sara Mels) Hans Branscheidt Hans Branscheidt is Head of the German based NGO medico international, an organisation that struggles for the human right to the best possible access to good health. In doing so it supports local partners, primarily in Africa, Asia and Latin America in their endeavours to create the economic, social and cultural conditions that allow each person to attain the highest health standard possible. In particular medico stands by those who are in situations of emergency and in poverty, including refugees and the victims of war. Hans Branscheidt is also a member of the Coalition for a Democratic Iraq (KDI). 203
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