“What Turkey? What Europe?” is the name of a seminar opened in Salzburg, Austria, on May 9. The seminar was organized by the Salzburg Global Seminar.
Among the participants are: Wolfgang Ischinger (Co-Chair) — Chairman, Munich Security Conference, Germany; Suleyman Özdem Sanberk (Co-Chair), Former Ambassador to the EU and the UK, and Former Director of the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation, Istanbul; Elif Sözen-Kohl (Co-Chair), Chief Investment Officer and Director, Eagle Advisors Ltd., Geneva, Switzerland; Monika Kalista (Guest Lecturer) — Government of the Province of Salzburg; Stefan Lehne (Guest Lecturer) — Political Director, Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs of Austria; Ziya Akkurt, CEO and Board Member, Akbank, Istanbul; Yves Doutriaux, Member of the Council of State (Conseil d’Etat); former Deputy Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations; Paris David Hannay — Member, House of Lords, Parliament of the United Kingdom, London; Haluk Ilicak, Deputy Secretary General for EU Affairs, Ankara; Suat Kiniklioglu, Member of Parliament and Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Turkish Grand National Assembly; AK Party Deputy Chairman of External Affairs, Ankara; Michael Leigh, Director-General for Enlargement, European Commission, Brussels; Gülseren Onanc — President of Women Entrepreneurs Association KADIGER; Hugh Pope — Turkey/Cyprus Project Director, International Crisis Center, Istanbul; Albert Rohan, Rapporteur, Independent Commission on Turkey; former Secretary-General for Foreign Affairs of Austria, Vienna; Claudia Roth — Chairwoman, Alliance 90/The Greens, Berlin; George Vassiliou, Former President of the Republic of Cyprus; former Chief negotiator to the European Union; Yurdakul Yigitgüden, Consultant, Former Undersecretary of Energy, Ankara.
The only Armenian participant is Ashot Grigoryan, Chairman of the Armenian Unions Forum of Europe. At the opening ceremony, Grigoryan outlined the issues he had prepared for discussions, particularly the present and future of the Armenian-Turkish protocols, admission of the Armenian Genocide by Turkey, reopening of the Armenian-Turkish border, development of relations with the South Caucasus, particularly with Azerbaijan.