Date: 28 November 2015

Time: 10:00-17:00

Venue: İstanbul Bilgi University, Dolapdere Campus Court Room

This panel is held in cooperation between Istanbul Bilgi University Law Faculty, Human Rights Law Research Center and Istanbul Rums Universal Federation. 

Programme

10:00-10:30   Opening

• Prof. Dr. Turgut Tarhanlı, İstanbul Bilgi University Law Faculty Dean and Director of Human Rights Law Research Center

• Prof. Dr. Nikolaos Uzunoğlu, Head of İstanbul Rums Universal Federation

10:30-13:00   Testimonies

• Testimonies by 11 victims and one perpetrator

13:00-14:00   Lunch break

13:30-17:00   Panel “6-7 September 1955: Law and Confrontation”

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Turgut Tarhanlı

Panelists:

• Prof. Dr. Baskın Oran, “The Place of 6-7 September Pogrom in our Process of Capital Accumulation and History of Impunity”

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cengiz Aktar, “How is It That We Started Remembering?”

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ömer Turan, “The Relation between Adjudication and Confrontation with a Focus on the Case of 6-7 September Events in Yassıada Trials”

• Asst. Prof. Dr. Ulaş Karan, “6-7 September Events in Light of the Current Human Rights Law: An Attempt to Provide a Legal Opinion”

• Prof. Dr. Nikolaos Uzunoğlu, “Recommendations for the Istanbul Rum Society for a Program to Compensate Historical Injustices"