Turkey and the EU: how big is the gap?

A seminar on Turkish EU entry with the Turkish journalist and human-rights campaigner Nadine Mater, Chris Morris of the BBC and John Peet of The Economist.

NADINE MATER is a distinguished Turkish journalist and dissident. Her determined coverage, over 23 years, of the Kurdish issue, honour killings, child labour, AIDs, the prison system and extra-judicial arrest has put her at the forefront of Turkish civil-rights movement. Her best-selling ‘Mehmet’s Book’, a collection of interviews with soldiers conscripted to fight in the Kurdish south-east, was banned soon after publication, and Nadine was prosecuted for “insulting and belittling the military”. She is currently the Turkey representative of Reporters Sans Frontières.

JOHN PEET is Europe editor of The Economist, and a strong advocate of Turkish EU entry. He was previously the paper’s Business Affairs Editor and Brussels correspondent.

CHRIS MORRIS was the BBC’s Istanbul correspondent from 1997-2001, and Brussels correspondent from 2001-‘05. His ‘The New Turkey: the Quiet Revolution at the Edge of Europe’ has just been published by Granta.

Venue: Policy Exchange, Clutha House, 10 Storey’s Gate, London SW1P 3AY. (Nearest tubes Westminster and St James’s Park.)

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