Rusen Cakir is senior correspondent for the Turkish daily Vatan and editor of Metis Publishing’s Black and White Book Series, which promotes the work of investigative journalists.

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.

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

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

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.

Mr Ahmet Şık is a Turkish investigative journalist, author of several books, and a trade unionist.

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.

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