Dr Tiryaki attended the Bratislava Legal Forum 2023 organized by the Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Law in cooperation with the faculty’s Alumni Club. The forum took place on 11 and 12 September 2023 on the Faculty’s premises. Dr Tiryaki presented her paper “Guaranteeing right to asylum in de facto states: case study Cyprus”, which is due to be published in the conference proceedings.
Dr. Tiryaki participated in the fifty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, which took place at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 9 to 20 March 2015. The main focus of the session was on the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, including current challenges that affect its implementation and the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women.
For more information about the session and its outcomes, see: https://www.unwomen.org/en/csw/previous-sessions/csw59-2015#sthash.5EPgUziR.dpuf
On 23.3.2015, Dr Tiryaki participated in a discussion organised by the Brookings Institute. The discussion was built on an ongoing dialogue between the Israeli think tank Mitvim, and the Turkish Global Political Trends Center, sponsored by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, as well as ongoing work by Brookings experts.
A recording of the discussion is available here: https://www.brookings.edu/events/strained-alliances-israel-turkey-and-the-united-states/
On October 25, 2012, Dr. Sylvia Tiryaki
participated in the Inaugural Suna Roundtable Discussion
entitled “The Middle East on Rise: Turkey and the EU” in Bratislava,
organized by GPoT Center in collaboration with the Faculty of Social and
Economic
Sciences (FSES) of Comenius University in Slovakia. This was the first
one in a series of roundtable discussions that will
be held annually in Bratislava to commemorate H.E. Suna Çokgür Ilıcak,
who passed away while serving as the Ambassador of the Republic of
Turkey to Slovak Republic in 2006.
Dr. Tiryaki discussed Turkey’s role in the Middle East and EU-Turkey
relations with the representatives of diplomatic corps based in
Bratislava, academics, experts and students who attended the event, and
participated in a ceremony during which a birch tree in the memory of
H.E. Suna Çokgür Ilıcak was jointly planted in the garden of FSES.
Dr.Tiryaki spoke at the 2011 Oman Power and Water Summit.
The report about the event can be read here LINK.
Dr. Tiryaki moderated the Public Forum Closing Remarks by H.E. Mr. Zahir Tanin Head of Delegation Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, which took place in May 2010.
For more about the event, see LINK.
Dr. Tiryaki spoke as a panelist at the “Turkey as EU’s partner: Lessons from the migration crisis and preparation for the next one” conference organized by EURACTIV Slovakia on 26 October 2021.
To watch a recording of the discussion, see LINK.
Dr. Tiryaki spoke at the conference “Towards Trust Building: Reconciliation through a Common Purpose in Cyprus” , which was part of a research project under the special action “Reconciliation, Confidence Building Measures and Support to Civil Society” in Cyprus. The project took place from December 2009 to December 2010.
For more information about the event, see LINK.
Dr. Tiryaki moderated the “New Geopolitics/Refugee Wave/HumanSec under threat” panel at the 24 Symi Symposium, which took place on 10-14 of July in Athens.
For more information about the event, see LINK.
To read the report see LINK.