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TAIEX Seminar In Istanbul 17/12/2010
The TAIEX seminar named "Roma Citizens In Turkey" was organized in İstanbul by the Directorate-General Enlargement of EU with participating of Roma representeters, EU officials and government officials.
Situation of Roma living in Turkey about housing, employment, health and education topics was evaluated in the seminar comparatively. Roma workshops started by the government was also discussed in every respects. Roma representers from different regions of the country gave detailed informations to participants about the situation of Roma citizens. Problems of Roma community and solution offers were also evaluated in the workshops organized in the context of seminar.
Minister for EU Affairs, Egemen Bağış made a comment about the seminar with those words: "I believe that this seminar will be helpful to find solutions for the problems of Roma citizens and make their problems more visible for the publicity. I also believe that this seminar will improve our social solidarity." Egemen Bağış, who emphasized that there are more than 2 million Roma citizens, defined Roma people as one of the founder elements of Turkish Republic.
Opening Remarks were maden by Minister Egemen Bağış and Andris Kesteris, the principal advisor of Civil Society and Inter-institutional Relations Directorate-General Enlargement European Commision, in the first day of the seminar. Elmas Arus also spoke representing Roma sivil society of Turkey.
TAIEX is the Technical Assistance and Information Exchange instrument managed by the Directorate-General Enlargement of the European Commission. TAIEX supports partner countries with regard to the approximation, application and enforcement of EU legislation. The beneficiaries of TAIEX assistance are member states and candidate countries including Turkey like Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina...
Speak Text of Elmas Arus (Zero Discrimination Association) -Not translated yet-
Program of the Seminar
Chair: José Manuel Fresno
8.45 – 9.00 Registration
9.00 – 9.30 Opening Remarks
Egeman Bagis
Minister for EU Affairs and Turkish Chief Negotiator
Andris Kesteris
Principal advisor
Civil Society and Inter-institutional Relations
Directorate-General Enlargement
European Commision
9.30 – 10.00 Follow-up to the "Roma Opening" in Turkey
Faruk Celik
State Minister
Turkish government
Elmas Arus
Zero Discrimination Association
10.00 – 10.15 Discussion
10.15 – 10.45 Human rights of citizens in the EU
Dr. Erik Wennerström
Principal legal adviser to the
Swedish Minister of Foreign affairs
10.45 – 11.00 Discussion
11.00 - 11.15 Coffee Break
11.15-11.45 Social and economic integration of Roma Citizens: the Spanish experience
José Manuel Fresno
President of the Spanish Council
for the equal treatment and non-discrimination
of persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin
11.45 – 12.00 Discussion
12.00 – 12.30 Challenges of Roma social inclusion in Turkey (including dissemination of findings of an ongoing EU study in this field)
Fernando Villarreal
Fundacion Secretario Gitano
12.30 – 12.45 Discussion
12.45– 14.15 Lunch
14.15 - 15.30 Workshops I-IV
15.30 – 15.45 Coffee Break
15.45 - 17.00 Workshops I-IV (continued)
Workshop on best practices I:
Access to social services (health and education)
15 December 14:15 – 17:00
16 December 9:00 – 10:30
Chair
Prof.Dr.Zerrin Toprak
Dokuz Eylul University
Department of Public Administration
Reporter
Ibrahim Guray Yontar
Dokuz Eylul University
Department of Public Administration
Turkish examples in the field
Ayse Gunduz Hosgor
METU
Department of Sociology
Basak Ekim Akkan
Bogazici University Social Policy Forum
EU best practices in the field
Gordon Alexander
Senior Advisor Economic and Social Policy
UNICEF Geneva
Lida Kita
Human Capital Development Specialist
European Training Foundation
Discussion based on expert input
Workshop on best practices II:
Combating stereotypes (eg. text books, media)
15 December 14:15 – 17:00
16 December 9:00 – 10:30
Chair
Ivan Ivanov
ERIO European Roma Information Office
Reporter
Ozhan Onder
METU PhD Candidate
Department of Sociology
Turkish example in the field
Dr. Adrian Marsh
University of Greenwich Researcher in Romani Studies
EU best practice in the field
Andrzej Mirga
Senior Advisor
OSCE-ODIHR contact point for Roma and Sinti
Discussion based on expert input
Workshop on best practices III:
Housing and Urban Renewal
15 December 14:15 – 17:00
16 December 9:00 – 10:30
Chair
Professor Fikret Adaman
Boğaziçi University
Istanbul
Reporter
Feray Salman
General Coordinator
Human Rights Joint Platform (İHOP)
Turkish examples in the field
Tahire Erman
Bilkent University
Dept. of Political Science
Emine Onaran İncirlioglu
Architect and Anthropologist
EU best practice in the field
Lea Koszeghy (tbc)
Institute for Ethnic and National Minority Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Budapest, Hungary
Discussion based on expert input
Workshop on best practices IV:
Working Life and Employment Challenges
15 December 14:15 – 17:00
16 December 9:00 – 10:30
Chair
Prof.Dr.Ayhan Kaya
Bilgi University
Director of European Institute
Reporter
Alper Yaglidere
Dokuz Eylul University
Institute of Social Sciences
Turkish example in the field
Sibel Kalaycioglu
METU
Department of Sociology
EU best practice in the field
Belen Sanchez
Fundacion Secretario Gitano
Discussion based on expert input
Day 2 : Thursday 16 December 2010
Chair: José Manuel Fresno
09.00 – 10.30 Workshops I-IV (continued)
10.30 – 11.15 Coffee Break
11.15 – 12.00 Plenary: presentation of the topics discussed in Workshops I-IV
Reporters
12.00 - 13.00 Discussion
13.00 – 14.15 Lunch
14.15 – 15.15 Panel discussion on the way forward in Turkey
Moderator:
Ivan Ivanov
ERIO European Roma Information Office
José Manuel Fresno
President of the Spanish Council for the equal treatment and non-discrimination of persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin
Omer Eksi
Advisor to the State Minister Faruk Celik
Necdet Subasi
Academician (Gazi University, Faculty of Communication)
Public should have possibility to intervene
15.15 - 15.30 Closing Remarks by EUSG Ambassador Volkan Bozkir
