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Washington: Neo-Nazi Extremism in Germany

30.10.2014

Please join the Friedrich Ebert Foundation for a lecture and discussion on Neo-Nazi Extremism in Germany. The Case of the NSU Trials and State Accountability with Dr. Mehmet Daimagüler, Esq. Alexander Pyka, LL.B Prof. Marcia Pally, NYU.

Thursday, October 30th | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Venue: The Roger Smith Hotel - Room: Solarium - 501 Lexington Avenue New York, New York 10017
A Wine & Cheese Reception will follow the lecture.

TOPIC
Since the far right extremist terror group known as NSU (National Socialist Underground) was uncovered by the German police in 2011, a number of long unsolved high-profile crimes have been attributed to the group. The group was charged with the murder of eight ethnic Turks and one Greek (between 2000-2006; known as the "Bosphorus Serial Murders"), the murder and attempted murder of two police officers, as well as the 2001 and 2004 bombings in Cologne which resulted in a attempted murder in 23 cases. These vicious crimes of the until then unknown terrorist group NSU have sent Germany into deep shock, raising questions about possible mistakes during police investigations and more generally the state’s response to ideological and political hate crimes. The trials against the NSU have been ongoing since May 2013.

LECTURE
Dr. Mehmet Daimagüler is an attorney based in Berlin. As a co-plaintiff he represents several relatives of victims of the NSU at the trial in Munich. He is one of the leading political activists on immigration issues and was the first German-Turk to be elected to the national board of a German political party. He also spearheads inter-religious dialogue in Germany, bridging, in particular, the Muslim-Jewish divide. He studied law at the University of Bonn. He is a Harvard graduate, was a Fellow at Yale University and lectures at the Institute for Criminal Law at the University of Bielefeld.
Alexander Pyka studied Law at Bucerius Law School in Germany and Tel Aviv University in Israel. He recently finished his doctorate in International Law while working as personal advisor to former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder. He is founder and board member at the Young Initiative on Foreign Affairs and International Relations (www.IFAIR.eu) and has worked with Dr. Daimagüler on the NSU-trial from its early beginnings.

COMMENTS AND MODERATION
Prof. Marcia Pally teaches at New York University in Multilingual Multicultural Studies and is the author of several books on religion and politics, The New Evangelicals being the most recent. Prof. Pally spoke at the World Economic Forum in 2010 and has been awarded several fellowships by the DFG and DAAD for cooperative research and teaching in Berlin. She was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin in 2007 and 2010. In addition to her academic work, Prof. Pally has been a columnist in the U.S. and Europe for over 20 years, writing for The New York Times, the Village Voice, Telos journal, Internationale Politik (German Council on Foreign Relations), die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Süddeutsche Zeitung, Tageszeitung, and Frankfurter Rundschau, among other periodicals.