Fundación Alternativas presents next Friday, April 10 from 10 am in the Sala Valle Inclán of the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid (calle Alcalá, 42) a seminar entitled Spain and Turkey: together for Gaza, Palestine and regional peace. How to progress? To attend, registration on this form is mandatory.
Following the genocide in Gaza, a major political, economic, and humanitarian effort is required to rebuild Gaza and the West Bank, as well as to restore relations between Israel and Palestine. Turkey and Spain have spoken out strongly in defense of the rights of the Palestinian people, reconstruction and a two-state solution. We share common views on the solution to the conflict and could make a very positive contribution to the stabilization and prosperity of the Middle East.
What can we do together to reorient this process toward our common goal? Is there any way forward in the current context of regional war? This joint Spanish-Turkish seminar explores the role and leadership of both governments and their citizens in that task, while building broad coalitions in Europe and the Islamic and Arab world with a view to a just, balanced and lasting solution to the conflict.
Fundación Alternativas invites to attend a very special day of debate, with academic experts from Turkey and Spain, the Embassies of Turkey and the Palestinian State in Madrid, agencies such as UNWRA or the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, EU and Cooperation. A seminar that will also feature an excellent working document on the subject.
After a welcoming speech by Vicente Palacio, Director of Foreign Policy at the Alternatives Foundation, and special interventions by Nüket Küçükel Ezberci, Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey, and Husni Abdel Wahed, Ambassador of the State of Palestine, Bureau 1 will open, entitled Perspectives: The Gaza Peace Plan and the regional war. It will be attended by Ramazan Erdag, president of the Center for Strategic Research of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey; Eduard Soler, professor of International Relations at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Senior Associate Researcher at IBEI; Isaías Barreñada, professor of International Relations at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), and Hana Jalloul (online), member of the European Parliament, from the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, and vice president of the Socialist International. Ángeles Espinosa, former correspondent of El País in the Middle East, will moderate the table.
After a coffee break, Table 2 will continue at 11.45, entitled Turkey and Spain: the Economic and Humanitarian Reconstruction of Gaza and Palestine, with the intervention of Mehmet Güllüoğlu, Humanitarian Aid Coordinator for Palestine. Government of Turkey; Muhammed Huseyin Mercan, associate professor of International Relations, Yıldırım Beyazıt University of Ankara, and Raquel Martí, Executive Director of UNWRA Spain. This table will be moderated by Vicente Palacio. The seminar will be closed by Carmen Magariños, Director-General of Maghreb, Mediterranean and Middle East Affairs. The day can be followed on YouTube at this link.