sPAT April 2016 Agenda: ‘Right of asylum, its application in the world and TR-EU Agreement’

sPAT April 2016 Agenda: 'Right of asylum, its application in the world and TR-EU Agreement’

On the days of April, sPAT takes a previously local topic into its agenda, reflecting on the meetings for a long time with its different aspects.

The environment of clashes in the Middle East, specifically in Syria has caused a flow of migrants, which still continues, in Turkey since the first day of conflict. This situation has first been faced by the provinces that were nearest to conflict zones; however it is now being debated together with the security of people living in those regions, with the right to live, with the right to asylum in the international arena, caused by the variety of sides in the war or cold war, as well as the flow of migrants. 

Titles close to this topic in the public are usually handled in terms of terrorism, reasons for this environment in the national and international arena, politics and security measures. Together with the recent TR-EU Agreement, the debates have prepared a basis for other topics to emerge as well, such as projects organized for migrants, the right to asylum and its applications in the world.

The small Provincial Assemblies of Turkey is gathering with the general agenda, “Right of asylum, its applications in the world and the TR-EU Agreement” in April 2016.

The time and place of the meetings is as following.

Information on the meetings:

In case there is more than one person representing the same organization, only one of those representatives can take the floor at once. The time periods indicated below may be increased or decreased as long as all participants agree on the change and the flow of the meeting is not disrupted.

In our meetings, special guests speak about the general agenda for 10 minutes following the introduction video presented at the beginning of each meeting. After the special guests, the turn of speech is given first to Non-Governmental Organizations for 5 minutes each, then to Political representatives for 5 minutes each. Once the first round is completed, either the second round, or a question-answer session beings; according to the number of attendance and to the common preferences of the participants. In the Q/A session, political party representatives have 2 minutes to answer the questions asked by the civil society in 15 seconds. In this session, the special guests may be asked questions as well. The same format is applied for the local agenda as well, and the meeting concludes.