29/04/2015 Monitoring
Josette Durrieu (France, SOC), rapporteur for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will make a fact-finding visit to Istanbul, Şanliurfa and Ankara from 30 April to 4 May, in the context of post-monitoring dialogue with Turkey, so as to evaluate the country's progress with regard to the outstanding questions set out in the Assembly's most recent post-monitoring resolution.
In Istanbul, meetings are scheduled with the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the Turkish Armenian Patriarchal Archbishop Aram Atesyan, representatives of the Alevi community, public prosecutors and NGO and media representatives.
On 2 and 3 May, Ms Durrieu will visit the area near the border with Syria. She will have meetings with the Governors and local authority representatives in Şanliurfa and Suruç, and also with representatives of the Prime Minister’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), NGOs and the media. She will visit refugee camps in the region.
On 4 May, in Ankara, meetings are scheduled with the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the peace process, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, the Interior and Justice, and the Minister for Family and Social Policy. Ms Durrieu will also have meetings with the Chairman of the Turkish delegation to PACE, the President of the Constitutional Court and representatives of the HDP party’s delegation in charge of peace process contacts and of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (HCR).
On 5 and 6 May, the rapporteur will also participate in the pre-electoral mission carried out by PACE with a view to the parliamentary elections taking place on 7 June.