{"id":12008,"date":"2025-05-29T01:06:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T20:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=12008"},"modified":"2025-05-29T01:06:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T20:36:31","slug":"the-end-of-the-fourth-session-of-the-antalya-process-emphasis-on-national-dialogue-and-broad-participation-of-afghans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/the-end-of-the-fourth-session-of-the-antalya-process-emphasis-on-national-dialogue-and-broad-participation-of-afghans\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of the fourth session of the Antalya Process; Emphasis on national dialogue and broad participation of Afghans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12009\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/antalia-turk04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The fourth round of the Antalya Process, focusing on the role of civil society and democratic forces in the future of Afghanistan, ended on Tuesday, in Antalya, Turkey.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The two-day conference was hosted by the Geneva Center for Dialogue and Development and the Afghanistan Civil and Democratic Forces Network and was attended by a number of Afghan political, social, media, women and youth activists.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The main focus of the talks was on the current crisis in Afghanistan, ways to achieve a comprehensive military and creating conditions for full participation of Afghans in the political process, said Hamid Obaidi, head of the Afghanistan Journalists Protection Organization.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The organizers&#8217; statement stressed that civil society, women, youth and other political groups should play an active role in shaping the future of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The need to start a comprehensive national dialogue and increase international pressure on the Taliban were also key issues at the meeting.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Zakira Hekmat, head of the Afghanistan Women&#8217;s Rights Watch in Turkey, also stressed the importance of women&#8217;s meaningful participation in all negotiations related to the country&#8217;s future, saying the issue should be at the top of the agenda in talks with the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Taliban government, despite widespread domestic and international criticism, considers itself &#8220;inclusive&#8221; and calls meetings held without its representatives invalid.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Despite the absence of the Taliban, participants in the Antalya meeting expressed hope that the talks would lead to a broader dialogue and a political solution to the Afghan crisis.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth round of the Antalya Process, focusing on the role of civil society and democratic forces in the future of Afghanistan, ended on Tuesday, in Antalya, Turkey. The two-day conference was hosted by the Geneva Center for Dialogue and Development and the Afghanistan Civil and Democratic Forces Network and was attended by a number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12010,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12008\/revisions\/12010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}