Civil Pages Headline Civil Pages Civil Pages Headline Lawsuits Impacting the Civil Area: November 2021 Sivil Sayfalar 29 Kasım 2021 In recent years, we have witnessed that many cases with ongoing judicial processes directly or indirectly affect the civil area. We have prepared a new file that we will regularly follow up on important cases that have negative effects on the shrinking civil space in various ways and in different areas of rights. In the first of the file, we deal with the Gezi Case, Saturday Mothers, Ankara Women's Platform and Boğaziçi University Exhibition Case, which were joined with Çarşı. Civil Pages Civil Pages Headline Extensive Unemployment in the Pandemic: Future Anxiety of LGBTI+ People in the Public and Private Sector Nurcan Çalışkan 22 Kasım 2021 According to the ‘Situation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex and Plus Employees in Public Sector in Turkey’ report, LGBTI+ people are among the disadvantaged groups most affected by the unemployment crisis that peaked with the pandemic. LGBTI+ people who work with the fear of being fired because of their sexual identity are worried about their future because they are exposed to discrimination and hate speech in the workplace. Civil Pages Civil Pages Headline Civil Pages’ ‘Monitoring the Applications of CSOs To the Directorate of Communications (CİMER) and The Ombudsman Institution’ Published Sivil Sayfalar 19 Kasım 2021 Civil society can make violations of rights visible to public institutions by using its right to petition. The second report of Civil Pages on the right to petition, ‘Monitoring the Applications of CSOs To the Directorate of Communications (CİMER) and The Ombudsman Institution’ has been published. According to the report, which concludes that civil society's petition applications to CIMER and the Ombudsman Institution (KDK) in the presidential government system are low, civil society does not use its right to petition effectively. In addition, in order to eliminate the violations of rights by using the right to petition, which is one of the most important tools of the freedom to seek justice, the existence of a democratic environment compatible with human rights criteria is essential in Turkey. Civil Pages Civil Pages Headline Theater Cooperative Demands Transparency and Equality from the Ministry of Culture Emel Altay 16 Kasım 2021 ‘We demand and expect the reasons for the negative results of the applications of the theaters that cannot benefit from the support to be explained.’ We talked to Yeşim Özsoy, the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Theater Cooperative, the Founder and General Art Director of GalataPerform, about the problems in the support policies for private theaters by focusing on the questions contained in the report they prepared. Civil Pages Civil Pages Headline ‘The Decline of Democracy and Human Rights Continues’ Sivil Sayfalar 20 Ekim 2021 Similar to previous reports, in the European Union (EU) 2021 Turkey Progress Report, it is determined that 'the regression in the fields of democracy and human rights continues'. In the report, which states that ‘civil society has been subjected to constant pressure and the civil space continues to shrink’, it is also noted that dialogue and cooperation between the EU and Turkey have increased, and progress has been made in 20 chapters. Civil Pages Civil Pages Headline Paper Collectors Want Their Efforts to be Recognized Emel Altay 18 Ekim 2021 'People will somehow hold on to life. Holding on to this life will not be through informal or illegal means, but through legitimate fields, with effort. Recyclers working on the street just want to be recognized.' We talked with Dinçer Mendillioğlu, President of the Recycling Workers Association, about the problems faced by paper collectors, or handcarts, who collect on the street. Civil Pages Civil Pages Headline ‘We Want Fair Paris Agreement Practices’ Emet Değirmenci 11 Ekim 2021 The Paris Agreement, which Turkey had not signed before, now seemed essential to ratify for the three billion dollars it would take for adaptation measures, as well as in order not to fall outside the determined international trade criteria. Now, let's look at some questions about what needs to be done throughout Turkey in the restoration of the ecosystem and the biosphere. Civil Pages Civil Pages Headline We Can’t Access Accommodation: The Solution is a Comprehensive and Participatory Youth Policy Emel Altay 30 Eylül 2021 A week has passed in the park protests where university students protested the increasing rents and the lack of dormitories. Young people slept in parks in 11 provinces and say, ‘We cannot access accommodation’. Civil Pages Civil Pages Headline What Is This Foreign Fund Issue? 1: Civil Socialist as a Hero Rumeysa Çamdereli 03 Eylül 2021 How can we think that civil society, which has become so 'guilty' and has to make short moves in its narrowing field day by day, will ensure its financial sustainability through mass donation methods?
Civil Pages Civil Pages Headline Lawsuits Impacting the Civil Area: November 2021 Sivil Sayfalar 29 Kasım 2021 In recent years, we have witnessed that many cases with ongoing judicial processes directly or indirectly affect the civil area. We have prepared a new file that we will regularly follow up on important cases that have negative effects on the shrinking civil space in various ways and in different areas of rights. In the first of the file, we deal with the Gezi Case, Saturday Mothers, Ankara Women's Platform and Boğaziçi University Exhibition Case, which were joined with Çarşı.
Civil Pages Civil Pages Headline Extensive Unemployment in the Pandemic: Future Anxiety of LGBTI+ People in the Public and Private Sector Nurcan Çalışkan 22 Kasım 2021 According to the ‘Situation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex and Plus Employees in Public Sector in Turkey’ report, LGBTI+ people are among the disadvantaged groups most affected by the unemployment crisis that peaked with the pandemic. LGBTI+ people who work with the fear of being fired because of their sexual identity are worried about their future because they are exposed to discrimination and hate speech in the workplace.
Civil Pages Civil Pages Headline Civil Pages’ ‘Monitoring the Applications of CSOs To the Directorate of Communications (CİMER) and The Ombudsman Institution’ Published Sivil Sayfalar 19 Kasım 2021 Civil society can make violations of rights visible to public institutions by using its right to petition. The second report of Civil Pages on the right to petition, ‘Monitoring the Applications of CSOs To the Directorate of Communications (CİMER) and The Ombudsman Institution’ has been published. According to the report, which concludes that civil society's petition applications to CIMER and the Ombudsman Institution (KDK) in the presidential government system are low, civil society does not use its right to petition effectively. In addition, in order to eliminate the violations of rights by using the right to petition, which is one of the most important tools of the freedom to seek justice, the existence of a democratic environment compatible with human rights criteria is essential in Turkey.
Civil Pages Civil Pages Headline Theater Cooperative Demands Transparency and Equality from the Ministry of Culture Emel Altay 16 Kasım 2021 ‘We demand and expect the reasons for the negative results of the applications of the theaters that cannot benefit from the support to be explained.’ We talked to Yeşim Özsoy, the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Theater Cooperative, the Founder and General Art Director of GalataPerform, about the problems in the support policies for private theaters by focusing on the questions contained in the report they prepared.
Civil Pages Civil Pages Headline ‘The Decline of Democracy and Human Rights Continues’ Sivil Sayfalar 20 Ekim 2021 Similar to previous reports, in the European Union (EU) 2021 Turkey Progress Report, it is determined that 'the regression in the fields of democracy and human rights continues'. In the report, which states that ‘civil society has been subjected to constant pressure and the civil space continues to shrink’, it is also noted that dialogue and cooperation between the EU and Turkey have increased, and progress has been made in 20 chapters.
Civil Pages Civil Pages Headline Paper Collectors Want Their Efforts to be Recognized Emel Altay 18 Ekim 2021 'People will somehow hold on to life. Holding on to this life will not be through informal or illegal means, but through legitimate fields, with effort. Recyclers working on the street just want to be recognized.' We talked with Dinçer Mendillioğlu, President of the Recycling Workers Association, about the problems faced by paper collectors, or handcarts, who collect on the street.
Civil Pages Civil Pages Headline ‘We Want Fair Paris Agreement Practices’ Emet Değirmenci 11 Ekim 2021 The Paris Agreement, which Turkey had not signed before, now seemed essential to ratify for the three billion dollars it would take for adaptation measures, as well as in order not to fall outside the determined international trade criteria. Now, let's look at some questions about what needs to be done throughout Turkey in the restoration of the ecosystem and the biosphere.
Civil Pages Civil Pages Headline We Can’t Access Accommodation: The Solution is a Comprehensive and Participatory Youth Policy Emel Altay 30 Eylül 2021 A week has passed in the park protests where university students protested the increasing rents and the lack of dormitories. Young people slept in parks in 11 provinces and say, ‘We cannot access accommodation’.
Civil Pages Civil Pages Headline What Is This Foreign Fund Issue? 1: Civil Socialist as a Hero Rumeysa Çamdereli 03 Eylül 2021 How can we think that civil society, which has become so 'guilty' and has to make short moves in its narrowing field day by day, will ensure its financial sustainability through mass donation methods?
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