Parliamentary Assembly Assemblée parlementaire
Post-monitoring dialogue with Turkey
Programme Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee)
Programme of the fact-finding visit to Ankara and Istanbul (24-26 November 2008)
Rapporteur: Mr Serhiy HOLOVATY, Chairman of the Monitoring Committee
Secretariat: Ms Jane DINSDALE, Director, Political and Legal Affairs Directorate Ms Marine TREVISAN, Co-Secretary, Monitoring Committee
Monday, 24 November 2008
08.30 Meeting with Council of Europe Ambassadors
10.00-11.00 Meeting with Mr Hasim KILIC, Chief Judge of the Constitutional Court
11.15-12.15 Meeting with Mr Hasan GERCEKER, Head of the Supreme Court of Cassation
12.30-14.00 Working lunch hosted by Mr Mevlut CAVUSOGLU, Head of the Turkish Delegation to the PACE
14.15-15.15 Meeting with Mr Abdurrahman YALCINKAYA, Chief Prosecutor of the Supreme Court
15.30-16.15 Meeting with Mr Osman ÇAKIR, Deputy Chairman, Nationalist Movement Party (MHP)
16.30-17.15 Meeting with M. Onür ÖYMEN, Vice-Chairman, and Mr Sükrü ELEKDA Ğ, Republican People’s Party (CHP)
17.30-18.15 Meeting with Mr Cüneyt YÜKSEL, Justice and Development Party (AK Party)
18.30-19.15 Meeting with Mr Ahmet TÜRK, President, Democratic Society Party (DTP)
20.30 Working dinner with Mr Roland SCHILLING, Deputy Representative, and Mr Wojciech TROJAN, Head of the Asylum Transition Planning Unit, UNHCR Office in Ankara
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
10.15-11.15 Meeting with Mr Mehmet Ali SAHIN, Minister of Justice
12.00-13.00 Meeting with Mr Ali BABACAN, Minister for Foreign Affairs
13.15-13.45 Meeting with Mr Murat AKGUN, NTV Ankara
14.00-14.45 Meeting with Mr Be şir ATALAY, Minister of Interior
14.45-16.00 Meeting with the members of the High Council of Judges and Public Prosecutors
16.15-17.15 Meeting with Mr Enis BERBEROGLU, Hurriyet Daily News
19.00 Departure from Ankara to Istanbul
Wednesday, 26 November 2008
09.00-10.00 Meeting with Chief Rabbi Ishak HALEVA
10.15-11.15 Meeting with Aram ATESYAN, Turkish Armenian Patriarchal Archbishop, Chairman of the Religious Council
12.00-12.45 Meeting with His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch BARTHOLOMEW I
13.00-14.00 Lunch hosted by Mr Kadir TOPBAS, Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor
14.30-15.30 Meeting with representatives of Ozgur Gundem newspaper
15.45-16.45 Meeting with Mr Ali KENANOGLU, Vice-President of the Alevi-Bektashi Federation
17.15-18.15 Meeting with Mr Ergun BABAHAN, Editor in chief, Sabah Daily News
18.00-20.00 Meeting with the representatives of NGOs: Mr Avi HALIGUA, Amnesty International Ms Emel KURM, Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Mr. Serhan ARIKANOGLU, Chairman of the Progressive Lawyer Association