TURKEY EARLY PRESIDENTIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS (24 JUNE 2018) JOINT PARLIAMENTARY BRIEFING Version 15 June 2018

Draft Programme

Thursday, 21 June 2018 Arrival of the members of the delegation Transfer to Hotel Hilton

Friday, 22 June 2018

Venue: Hotel Hilton, Room Marco Polo 1&2

09:00-10.30 Internal meeting of the ad hoc committee of the PACE - Welcome by the Head of delegation - Debriefing of the pre-electoral mission by the members - Legal framework and electoral law by the Venice Commission - Operations, deployment, security by the Secretariat

Joint parliamentary briefings (Venue: Hotel Hilton, Room Cankaya)

10:30 - 10:45 Opening interventions - Mr Ignacio Sanchez Amor, Special Co-ordinator of the OSCE Short Term Observers - Ms Olena Sotnyk, Head of the PACE delegation - Mr Peter Osusky, Head of the OSCE PA delegation

10:45 – 11:30 Roundtable with representatives of the media (part I) - RSF: Mr. Erol Önderoğlu - Cumhuriyet Daily: Ms. Duygu Güvenç - Cumhuriyet: Mr Erdem Gul - Association of European Journalists: Mr Dogan Tilic - Sözcü Web Temsilcisi: Ms Zeynep Gurcanli - CNN Turkey: Ms Büşra Aslan - Hurryiet : Mr Serkan Demirtas

11:30 - 11:45 Roundtable with representatives of the media (part II) - Sabah: Ms. Nur Özkan Erbay, Daily Sabah Ankara Bureau Chief - Star: Mr. Mustafa Kartoğlu

11:45 - 12:30 Roundtable with representatives of the civil society (part I) - Human Rights Association: Mr. Öztürk Türkdoğan - Human Rights Joint Platform: Ms. Feray Salman - Right Initiative Association: Mr. Ömer Atalar - Transparency International Turkey - Checks and Balances network

12:30 - 12:45 Roundtable with representatives of the civil society (part II) - Association Law and Changes: Ms. Berceste Elif Duranay

12:45 - 14:15 Lunch break

14:15 – 15:45 Briefing by the OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission in Turkey Part I Amb. Audrey Glover, Head of Mission and experts of the Core Team 2

Political and Media Environment, Legal Framework and Complaints, Campaign, Election Administration, Voter registration, Candidate registration, Observers

15:45 – 16:45 Consecutive meetings with presidential candidates (or their representatives) and leaders and representatives of the political parties not represented in parliament competing in the early parliamentary elections: - 15:45-16:05 SP (): leaders and representatives of the SP - 16:05-16:25 VP (Patriotic Party): leaders and representatives of the VP - 16:25-16:45 DP (Democrat Party): leaders and representatives of the DP

16:45 - 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 - 18:20 Consecutive meetings with presidential candidates (or their representatives) and leaders and representatives of the main political parties represented in the parliament competing in the early parliamentary elections (part 1): - 17:00-17:20 Mr Recep Tayyip Erdogan, incumbent, joint candidate of the AKP (Justice and Development Party) and the MHP (Nationalist Movement Party); leaders and representatives of the AKP and MHP - 17:20-17:40 Mr Muharrem İnce, candidate of the CHP (Republican People’s Party); leaders and representatives of the CHP - 17:40-18:00 Mr Selahattin Demirtaş1, candidate of the HDP (People’s Democratic Party); leaders and representatives of the HDP - 18:00-18:20 Ms Meral Akşener, candidate of the IYI Party (); leaders and representatives of the IYI Party

Saturday, 23 June 2018

09:00 - 09:45 Meeting with Members of the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTSC) –

09:45 - 11:15 Meeting with Mr. Sadi Güven, Chairman of the Supreme Board of Elections (SBE) and SBE members, including members and staff responsible for election security issues (Supreme Board of Elections) as well as Turkish Airlines representative in charge of the organisation of transportation and handling of ballot boxes from out of country voting;

11:15 – 12:45 Briefing by the OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission in Turkey Part II Election day procedures – Observation – Statistics and forms – Security

Sunday, 24 June 2018

08:00 Observation of the opening

08:00 – 17:00 Observation of the voting

17:00 - Observation of the closing, counting and tabulation

Upon return from Debriefing of the ad hoc committee of the PACE (Hotel Hilton, Room Cankaya 1) Observation

Monday, 25 June 2018

14:30 (tbc) Press Conference

Wednesday, 27 June 2018

18:30 – 19:30 Debriefing of the ad hoc committee of the PACE (Strasbourg, Council of Europe, Room 8)

1 Mr Selahattin Demirtaş is currently in prison