International Year of Sustainable Mountain Development - Türkiye Event

16/12/2022

Event Programme

09.30 - 10.00 Welcoming and Registration

10.00 – 10.30 Opening speeches

o Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, TUYGAR Director - Duygu Salman Öztürk

o Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, UNSDSN Director – Tamer Atabarut

o FAO Türkiye, Assistant Representative - Ayşegül Selışık

o Mountain Partnership Secretariat, Programme Officer - Rosa Laura Romeo o Special Envoy of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic on mountain issues – Nurlan Aitmurzaev – video greeting

o General Directorate of Forestry, Deputy General Director – İbrahim Yüzer

o International Mountain Day – Video Screening

10.30 - 11.00 Keynote presentation: The linkage between sustainable development in mountain areas and tourism

· Ante Mandic – International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Comission of Protected Areas (WCPA) Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group (TAPAS) Knowledge Development Coordinator and Assistant Professor of Sustainable Tourism and University of Split

11.00 - 11.15 Short break

11.15 – 12.30 International Mountain Day Thematic Panel – “Women Move Mountains”

Moderator: Duygu Salman Öztürk

Bedriye Berber Engin – Bilecik - Gölpazarı, Kurşunlu Village Ecotourism Enterpreneur

Fatma Denizci – Founder of Şile Ovacık Village Women’s Association

Ayşegül Çoban – Lecturer at Iğdır University & Wildlife Veterinarian at Kuzey Doğa Association

Funda Akcan Amca – Assistant Professor at Başkent University Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences

12.30 - 14.00 Lunch Break

14.00 – 15.00 Panel: Conservation and Sustainability of Mountain Ecosystems

Moderator: Ekrem Yazıcı – FAO/UNECE Joint Forestry and Timber Section Deputy Chief

Ziya Şahin – President of Turkish Association of Beekepers

İsmail Menteş – Chair of Küre Mountains Ecotourism Association and Forestry Engineer

Erdoğan Özevren – FAO Türkiye Global Environment Fund (GEF) Portfolio Coordinator

Sıtkı Eraydın - General Directorate of Forestry, Section Chief of Management of Mountainous Areas

Tolga Yücel – WWF Türkiye Project Manager

15.00 – 15.15 Short break

15.15 – 16.15 Panel: Impact of Rural Development and Tourism on Livelihoods in Mountain Areas

Moderator: Aliye Ahu Akgün – Istanbul Technical University, Head of Department of City and Regional Planning

İlhan Koçulu – Founder of Boğatepe Environment and Life Association

Zümre Yıldırım and Büşra Çelik Çelen – Coordinators of Future is in Tourism Programme

Orhan Özçatalbaş – Professor at Akdeniz University Faculty of Agriculture

Tangör Tan - Agriculture Engineer and Gastronomy Researcher

Alp Arısoy – ÇEKÜL Rural Heritage Project Coordinator

16.15 – 17.00 Networking

17.00 Closing