Turkish Insights Policy Dialogue with :
Gerald Knaus
Director, European Stability Initiative
Seval Güzelkılınç
Head of International Programs Department, Turkish Red Crescent (KIZILAY)
European Commission Representative (Name to be confirmed)
UNHCR Representative (Name to be confirmed)
Amanda Paul
Senior Policy Analyst, European Policy Centre (Moderator)
Tuesday 17 November 2015, 10.30-12.30 (registration & coffee from 10.10)
EPC Auditorium, Rue du Trône 14-16, 1000 Brussels
The civil war in Syria has already triggered the world’s largest humanitarian crisis since the Second World War. Millions of Syrians have fled their country with over 5 million now located in several neighbouring states, including Turkey, which now hosts at least two and half million refugees. Over the last few months there has been a significant upsurge in refugees travelling to the EU with over half a million arriving and heading to northern Europe, principally to Germany. The majority have come through Turkey via the Aegean Sea, relying on smugglers. This development has been a wake-up call for the EU, which now recognizes the necessity for cooperation with Turkey in order to better control the flow of refugees into the EU and led to the development of an EU-Turkey Action Plan for the Syrian refugee crisis.
Our panel of experts will analyse the situation on the ground in Turkey and the EU, evaluate the Action Plan and how it could be implemented and look at what kind of longer term assistance Turkey will require to support the refugees.
European Policy Centre
Tel : 02 231 03 40
www.epc.eu
