Forum for the Support of the Palestinian People

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ORSAM, in cooperation with TOBB ETU and the United Nations held a panel entitled “Forum for the Support of the Palestinian People “on May 14, 2014. After the opening speeches made by Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, Mr. Abdou Salam Diallo, President of ORSAM Mr. Şaban Kardaş and Ass. Prof. Dr. Serdar Palabıyık from TOBB ETU; the panel have continued with the presentation of Palestinian experts on Jerusalem. Mr. Fady Khoury, attorney of Land and Planning Rights Unit, which is a organ of The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel (Adalah), and Mr. Mohammad Shtayyeh, Palestinian Economic Council for Research and Development as well as a senior adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in negotiations with Israel, mentioned about issues ensued from Jerusalem Master Plan and property rights and criticized the Israeli settlement plans in East Jerusalem in their speeches. They also evaluated the impacts of these developments on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. In the last part of the panel speakers were there to answer questions from the audience. After the panel, the 2005 Oscar-nominated “Omar” film, which addresses the dilemmas between the options of living a shadow life under Israeli occupation and struggling liberation of Palestinian people and territories was run.