Photograph of PEN members and associates gathered for the Kurdish Centre’s 8^th annual general meeting, which took place in Diyarbakir-Amed on 18-19 May 2013. Significantly, this was the first time the Kurdish Centre had been able to peacefully hold a meeting in their own country. At this meeting a new Executive Board was elected, including Şêxmûs Sefer as president (sitting first on the left on the very front row); Bêrîvan Doskî as vice-president (sitting to the right of Sefer); Kakşar Oremar as secretary general (sitting directly behind Doskî on the second row) and Mem Mîrxan as treasurer. Jiří Dědeček, president of the Czech Centre (2009-), can be seen to the right of Doskî.