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Turkey’s Greta Selin:<br> “Climate Crisis Determines the Future of Humanity, Please Be Aware”
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Turkey’s Greta Selin:
“Climate Crisis Determines the Future of Humanity, Please Be Aware”

Sivil Sayfalar
08 Ocak 2020

Robert College senior student Selin Gören is Turkey’s high school level representative of Fridays for the Future (FFF) movement which has been widespread the world with Greta Thunberg… Selin Gören attended the FFF meeting in Switzerland last summer with the 8th grade student Atlas Sarrafoğlu, Selin is currently in preparation to collaborate with Turkey's largest youth organization TOG in order to expand FFF’s impact area which  they have spread across the country with 20 cities and to trigger the society over the urgency of climate crisis...

“We Should Make The Questions That Can Only Be Asked To Women But Not To Men A Matter of Embarassment”
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“We Should Make The Questions That Can Only Be Asked To Women But Not To Men A Matter of Embarassment”

Sivil Sayfalar
23 Aralık 2019

The Mothers Are Right Initiative aims to change the system that excludes women from working life, by addressing the problems of working mothers. We talked to Hazal Acar, the founder of the initiative, about being a working mom and her work. Acar says that the questions asked not only to men but to women should be a matter of shame.

Elmas Arus: “Struggling Against Discrimination Starts Off From Local Struggle”
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Elmas Arus: “Struggling Against Discrimination Starts Off From Local Struggle”

Sivil Sayfalar
23 Aralık 2019

“The Most Romani Friendly Mayor” award given by Joint Initiative of Civil Society Development at Western Balkans and Turkey and Zero Discrimination Association was bestowed to İzmir Konak Mayor Abdül Batur this year. President of the Zero Discrimination Association Elmas Arus has answered our questions about the issue and said that she believes that the struggle against discrimination begins from local struggle and that social transformation starts off from there. 

“We’re On The Run”
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“We’re On The Run”

Sivil Sayfalar
23 Aralık 2019

As the quality and quantity of attacks on rights increase all over the world, many activists and organizations have been compulsorily developing new methods to respond effectively to these attacks. RunDemCrew is just one of them. However, when you look closer at these new methods and tools, you can see that the basic elements remain the same. Belonging, understanding and defining the needs and designing the processes that make individuals stronger are just some of these elements. Once you understand them well and put your creativity into a format that will appeal to people, it will be a simple matter to convince people who come from work exhausted to run through the city streets in the middle of the night.

Turkey’s First Digital School for the Hearing Impaired Opens
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Turkey’s First Digital School for the Hearing Impaired Opens

Sivil Sayfalar
16 Aralık 2019

“Talking Hands” Project which has been realized by Math teacher Pelin Baykan in December 2016 to carry out studies in order to bring solutions for the inequality of opportunity among the education of hearing impaired individuals, has launched Turkey's first digital school for the hearing impaired. “I received a lot of messages from outside Istanbul. Most of the people who watched my videos have already been living outside of Istanbul.” says Pelin Baykan. We talked to her about the implementation of the digital school.

Focusing on Different Identity and Culture Groups: Living In Unison: “Possible Together”
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Focusing on Different Identity and Culture Groups: Living In Unison: “Possible Together”

Sivil Sayfalar
16 Aralık 2019

YADA Foundation, which we recently followed with the Arena Meetings, is now organizing a new meeting for civil society called Living in Unison: “Possible Together”. In this program which is in the scope of the project “Strengthening the Multicultural Approach of Civil Society Organizations in Turkey and EU” as part of the “Civil Society Dialogue V Program” implemented by EU Presidency, they aim to focus on the experiences of various identity and culture groups who live together. We talked to the Project Coordinator Rumeysa Çamdereli about the program.

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