November 6 – 8, 2009 
Hotel Dinler, Ürgüp – Nevşehir city, Cappadoccia

6 November 2009, Friday

• Registration  
• Welcoming Coctail                                      

7 November 2009, Saturday

Registration  

Opening Remarks

• Joerg Dehnert, Resident Representative of Friedrich Naumann Foundation                
• Dr. Bican Şahin, President, ALT

I. Session: Philosophical Foundations of Liberalism

Chair: Prof. Dr. Atilla Yayla, Plato College

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Mustafa Erdoğan, Hacettepe University 

II. Session: Progressivism and Reactionism: Does this Dichotomy Really Matter? 

Chair: Prof. Dr. Recep Tapramaz, Ondokuz Mayıs  Unıversity

Speaker: Bengül Güngörmez, Ege University

Speaker: Ferhat Güneş, Computer Engineer, Technology and Freedom

III. Session: Judiciary and Freedom

Chair: Raşit Sarıkaya, Lawyer

Speakers: 

• Prof. Dr. Mehmet Turhan, Çankaya University
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali Şafak Balı, Selçuk University

IV. Session: Economic Crisis and Market Economy

Chair: Prof. Dr. Enver Alper Güvel, Çukurova University

Speakers:

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fuat Oğuz, Başkent University, Economic Crisis through the Austrian School Perspective
• Ünsal Çetin, Economist, Whose Crisis and Which Solution?

Discussion Groups  

8 November 2009, Sunday

V. Session:   The Kurdish Problem 

Chair: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bekir Berat Özipek, Istanbul Trade University

Speakers: 

 

• Dr. Vahap Coşkun, Dicle University
• Orhan Miroğlu, Author
• Sedat Yurttaş, Politician, IXI. Term Former MP

 

VI. Session: The Alevite Problem                     

Chair: Dr. Murat Yılmaz

Speakers:

 

• Şenol Kaluç, Historian, Director of the Center for Alevi and Bektashi Studies
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Necdet Subaşı, Coordinator of the Government’s Alevi Workshop
• Doğan Bermek, President of the Federation of Alevi Foundations

 

Lunch and Closing