Programme
 
 
Friday, 14^th October
 
Welcome reception, speeches and dinner
Pera House (British Consulate)
 
1900               Reception
 
1945               Speeches by:

Martti Ahtisaari - Former President of Finland and Chairman of the Independent Commission on Turkey
The Rt Hon Geoff Hoon MP - Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons, Former UK Secretary of State for Defence
H.E. Abdullah Gül - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey

2015                Dinner
  
 
Saturday, 15^th October
 
Seminar and discussions
Feriye Restaurant
 
0900 – 0915  Welcoming Remarks

Chris Brown – Director Turkey / British Council
Charles Grant – Director / Centre for European Reform (CER)
Can Paker – Chairman / Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV)

0915 – 1100 Session 1: Turkey and the EU’s common foreign and security policy

Chair: Can Paker (TESEV)

• How will Turkey align itself with the CFSP?
  Lord Hannay of Chiswick - Member of EU Select Committee / House of Lords

• What will be the likely tensions between Turkish foreign policy and the EU?
  Özdem Sanberk - Retired Ambassador

• How can Turkey support the EU’s involvement in the Middle East, in the Balkans and in the Caucasus?
  Dr. Heinz Kramer - EU External Relations / Stiftung Wissenschaft & Politik (SWP)

1100 – 1130  Coffee Break
 
1130 – 1315  Session 2: The economic impact of Turkey’s EU accession

Chair: Katinka Barysch (CER)

• How will the EU accession process impact on the pace and scope of reforms in Turkey?
  Maria Laura Lanzeni - Director, Head of Emerging Markets Risk / Deutsche Bank

• Are there risks of an anti-EU backlash if EU-inspired reforms progress too far and too fast?
  Güven Sak - Executive Director / Economic Policy Research Institute (TEPAV)

• How will Turkey’s accession change the existing EU?
  Will Hutton - Chief Executive / The Work Foundation
  

 
1315 – 1430    Lunch

• Remarks by Mehmet Dülger – MP / Turkish National Assembly (AKP - Justice and Development Party) - Chairman of the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Commission

1430 – 1615   Session 3: The accession negotiations: ideas for a constructive dialogue

Chair: Chris Brown (British Council)

• What can Turkey learn from the negotiating experience of the Central and East European countries?
  Pavel Telička - Director / BXL Consulting

• Which issues will be the most difficult in the negotiations?
  Jean-Christophe Filori – Member of the Cabinet of Commissioner Olli Rehn / European Commission

• How can Turkey sustain the political momentum behind accession talks for a decade or more?
  Murat Mercan - MP, / Turkish National Assembly (AKP - Justice and Development Party) and Chairman / Turkish Delegation to The Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly (COEPA) and Assembly of WEU
  

1615 – 1645  Coffee Break
     
1645 – 1800  Close of Conference

• Carl Bildt - Former Prime Minister of Sweden and Chairman / Kreab Group
• Ahmet Davutoðlu - Chief Advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey

1815 – 2000  Boat Trip
 
2030               Informal Dinner

Report of Conference

Key Conclusions