04/12/2009
Speaker: Mr. Akin Birdal, Former Vice-President of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and MP for Democratic Society Party (DTP) in Turkish Parliament
Date: 10th December 2009 at 7:00 pm
Venue: G50 School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (SOAS)
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Organised by d UK Kurdish Studies and Students Organisation (KSSO)
Seminar abstract
Mr. Akin Birdal will address human rights violations and ethnic discrimination against the Kurds in Turkey. Mr. Birdal will also talk about prosecution of Kurdish trade unionists and politicians including the prosecution of Leyla Zana for a talk she previously delivered at SOAS and discuss the responses of the Kurds and the European Union to the Turkey’s poor human rights record.
Further information
Kurdish Society at SOAS (KSSOAS) and UK Kurdish Studies and Students Organisation (KSSO)
www.ksso.org.uk
email: mc@ksso.org.uk
- KurdishMedia.com
