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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Meg Hillier was elected Member of Parliament for Hackney South and Shoreditch in 2005.

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.