Dr Alan Semo is the UK Representative of the Democratic Union Party (PYD).

Mr Jason McCartney is the Conservative MP for Colne Valley in West Yorkshire.

Bill Park is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Defence Studies, King’s College, London University, and is based at the UK Defence Academy, Shrivenham.

Gary Kent, who has worked in Parliament for 25 years, is the Administrator of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Kurdistan Region in Iraq.

Lord Clement-Jones is a Liberal Democrat Peer, the chair of the Liberal Democrats in Communications Committee, as well as a member of the Communications Committee.

Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman is the Deputy Prime Minister of the Kurdish Democratic Party.

Dr Liam Fox is the Conservative MP for North Somerset, and Former Secretary of State for Defence.

Lord Maurice Glasman is a Labour Life Peer, as well as a member of Private Bills Select Committee in the House of Lords.

Patrick Cockburn is a correspondent for teh Independent, as well as author of “The Jihadis Return: ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising”.

Mr Ismail Saymaz is a Turkish investigative journalist for daily Radikal (since May 2002).