Versions- 1st Int. Conf. on the EU, Turkey and the Kurds [London, 2005]
- 2nd Int. Conf. on the EU, Turkey and the Kurds [London, 2006]
- 3rd Int. Conf. on the EU, Turkey and the Kurds [London, 2007]
- 4th Int. Conf. on the EU, Turkey and the Kurds [London, 2009]
- 5th Int. Conf. on the EU, Turkey and the Kurds [London, 2010]
FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EU, TURKEY AND THE KURDS
EDITOR’S NOTE
The fifth annual EU-Turkey Civic Commission (EUTCC) Conference was held on 28th and 29th January 2009 at the European Parliament in Brussels. The event was hosted by the founders of the EUTCC, namely, the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (UK); the Kurdish Human Rights Project (UK); medico international (Germany); and the Rafto Foundation (Norway), and was supported by members of the European Parliament. The conference was dedicated to the memory of the writer and Nobel Prize laureate Harold Pinter, who died on 24th December 2008.
This publication sets out the speeches and papers of the 2009 Conference, including the Final Resolutions, in order to give an idea of the key issues discussed over the 2 days of the conference, although not all remarks by moderators have been included. A brief account of the background to the Conference can be found below; for a more comprehensive guide to the accession process and related recent developments in Turkey, the Background Paper that was given to Conference delegates is included in this publication (Appendix 1).
For the purposes of publication, the speeches reproduced here have been edited and in some cases abridged or transcribed from the simultaneous translations made at the conference on each day. Where given, the title of each speech has been included. Where speeches were submitted to the publisher as papers, author’s footnotes have been retained.
The opinions expressed in this work do not necessarily represent the views of the EUTCC. | 
