sPAT December 2016 Agenda: Turkey-EU Relations, The Process

In the last meeting of 2016, small Provincial Assemblies of Turkey gather under the title, “Turkey-EU Relations, The Process.”

sPAT leaves 2016 behind with its meetings on December 2-3 and 4th. 

When the past month is considered, there have been lots of headlines both in the domestic and foreign politics, giving direction to relations between Turkey and the EU.

Turkey-EU Relations have become the hottest headline in Turkey many times both with positive and negative motivations.

In the last meeting of 2016, small Provincial Assemblies of Turkey gather under the title, “Turkey-EU Relations, The Process.”

The time and location of the meetings are as indicated below: 

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.