{"id":10839,"date":"2025-08-27T14:41:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T14:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/?p=10839"},"modified":"2025-08-27T14:42:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T14:42:00","slug":"wtmuga-participated-in-the-osce-helsinki-50-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/en\/wtmuga-participated-in-the-osce-helsinki-50-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"WTMUGA Participated in the OSCE Helsinki 50+ Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WTMUGA participated in the OSCE Helsinki 50+ conference held in Helsinki, the capital of<br>Finland, on July 30-31, 2025. The Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs organized a special<br>conference to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Helsinki Final Act, the<br>OSCE&#8217;s founding document. Human rights experts Dr. Pervin Hayrullah and Kerem<br>Abdurahimoglu attended the conference on behalf of WTMUGA. The special 50th<br>anniversary event began on Wednesday evening, July 30, with a reception hosted by the<br>Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Helsinki City Hall. On Thursday, July 31, the Helsinki<br>50+ Conference began with speeches by Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Minister of<br>Foreign Affairs and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Elina Valtonen, President of Ukraine<br>Volodymyr Zelenskyy, UN Secretary-General Antonio Gueterres, OSCE Secretary-General<br>Feridun Sinirlioglu, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk, and Human<br>Rights Watch Interim Executive Director Federico Borello. The conference, which consisted<br>of three sessions titled &#8220;Respect,&#8221; &#8220;Response,&#8221; and &#8220;Preparation,&#8221; featured Foreign and<br>Government Ministers from OSCE Participating States, as well as high-level representatives<br>from human rights organizations and civil society organizations. Key topics covered at the<br>conference included the signing of the Helsinki Final Act, the OSCE&#8217;s contributions and<br>shortcomings to the security and stability of Europe and the wider region over the past 50<br>years, and the role of the OSCE in today&#8217;s challenging times. Following the sessions, the<br>Helsinki 50+ Fund, initially established with contributions from 16 OSCE Participating States<br>to ensure more effective implementation and adoption of the principles set forth in the<br>Helsinki Final Act over the next 50 years, was introduced. The event concluded with a<br>reception following the conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"10842\" src=\"https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3-20-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3-20-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3-20-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3-20-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3-20-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3-20.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"10841\" src=\"https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2-18-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2-18-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2-18-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2-18-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2-18-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2-18-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2-18-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2-18.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"10843\" src=\"https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1-21-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1-21-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1-21-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1-21-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1-21.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WTMUGA participated in the OSCE Helsinki 50+ conference held in Helsinki, the capital ofFinland, on July 30-31, 2025. The Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs organized a specialconference to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Helsinki Final Act, theOSCE&#8217;s founding document. Human rights experts Dr. Pervin Hayrullah and KeremAbdurahimoglu attended the conference on<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/en\/wtmuga-participated-in-the-osce-helsinki-50-conference\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,85,143],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-human-rights","8":"category-news","9":"category-photos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10845,"href":"https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10839\/revisions\/10845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.btaytd.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}