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‘Adoption Must be Consulted with Child Organizations, not with Religious Affairs’

‘Adoption Must be Consulted with Child Organizations, not with Religious Affairs’

Lawyer Asma has stressed the importance of lifting the age limit in adoption but stated that it must be consulted with the representatives of NGO and child organizations, not the Directorate of Religious Affairs.

"Gündem: Çocuk!" Programme on Children’s Rights Steams Live on Medyascope

"Gündem: Çocuk!" Programme on Children’s Rights Steams Live on Medyascope

"Gündem: Çocuk!", a programme on children’s rights meets its audience every friday at 11 a.m. streamed live on Medyascope.tv. Today’s topic is physical security in schools.

15 September 2017

Right of Individual Application to UN Child Rights Committee

Right of Individual Application to UN Child Rights Committee

Optional Protocol Concerning Application Procedure of Convention on Child Rights has entered into force. Attorney Akço has said now individual applications can be filed to the committee, the committee has no sanction power but the protocol can ensure an effective international monitoring.

‘Academics Can Sue President for Damages’

‘Academics Can Sue President for Damages’

Attorneys Cinmen and İlkiz have noted that the academics could sue the President for damages on account of defaming them by using expressions such as “crappy so-called, scum and dark”.

21 January 2016

Tourists Speak after Sultanahmet Explosion: We are Here

Tourists Speak after Sultanahmet Explosion: We are Here

Two days after the explosion in Sultanahmet, people are there to commemorate those killed, the tourists we’ve talked with say the attacks aim for fear yet they will not allow it.

14 January 2016

Explosion in Sultanahmet, İstanbul Governorate Makes Statement

Explosion in Sultanahmet, İstanbul Governorate Makes Statement

A blast took place in Sultanahmet Square of İstanbul ,which left 10 dead, 15 other wounded, according to İstanbul Governorate, a broadcast ban has been imposed on the incident.

12 January 2016

Attorney İlkiz: A Basic Law Required to Protect Personal Data

Attorney İlkiz: A Basic Law Required to Protect Personal Data

Attorney İlkiz has stated that a basic legislation to protect personal data should be enacted prior to draft law to include biometric data in IDs and save it in family registries.

24 December 2015

Şırnak Eğitim Sen President: Children being Used as Human Shield is a Lie

Şırnak Eğitim Sen President: Children being Used as Human Shield is a Lie

President of Education and Science Workers’ Union, Serhat Uğur, has refuted the reports claiming PKK members use children as human shields in Şırnak.

22 December 2015

Violence, Curfews Restrain Right to Education

CHAIRPERSON TRADE UNION OF EMPLOYEES IN EDUCATION AND SCIENCE

Violence, Curfews Restrain Right to Education

Kamuran Karaca, Chairperson of the Trade Union of Employees in Education and Science has pointed out that curfews deprive children of their right to education and traumatize students and teachers severely.

15 December 2015

Dr. Şimşek: Agreement Between EU and Turkey is Unsuitable to Refugee Rights

Dr. Şimşek: Agreement Between EU and Turkey is Unsuitable to Refugee Rights

Dr. Doğuş Şimşek from Koç University interpreting the agreement between EU and Turkey has stated that policies contradicting international law will be pursued with enhancing border control and putting readmission agreement into effect.

2 December 2015

Job Security Law must Cover Children too

AGENDA CHILD ASSOCIATION

Job Security Law must Cover Children too

Mehmet Onur Yılmaz from Agenda Child Association has said job security law to be in effect in 2016 is only grown up oriented and that general job security principles in schools don’t cover students.

12 November 2015

If Child Doesn’t Get Harmed…

SHOULD IT BE PUBLISHED OR NOT?

If Child Doesn’t Get Harmed…

The photo of drowned refugee child on the shore sparked a debate. Press adopted different approaches against the issue. Some people criticized while some people supported it. bianet asked Professor Değirmencioğlu and lawyer Seda Akço.

3 September 2015

“Education in Mother Tongue Not Political, But Universal Right”

“Education in Mother Tongue Not Political, But Universal Right”

Ahmet Özmen from Diyarbakır Bar Association told bianet that the reservations that Turkey put Convention on the Rights of the Child were related to Kurdish children’s rights. “The removal of these reservations will also alleviate the government,” he said.

20 November 2014

Police Fires Rubber Bullets At Validebağ Grove Activists

Police Fires Rubber Bullets At Validebağ Grove Activists

Police reportedly attacked with tear gas and rubber bullets those activists who assembled in order to stop a mosque construction in the entrance of Istanbul’s Validebağ Grove despite a court order.

28 October 2014

Who Will Teach Christian Religion Classes in Turkey?

Who Will Teach Christian Religion Classes in Turkey?

Garo Paylan, an administrative at Turkey’s Armenian schools, commented on Education Minister’s introduction of Christian religion classes in minority schools: it is positive but has no place in practice.

10 October 2014

Kürdi Der Awaiting Response For Kurdish-Teaching Schools

Kürdi Der Awaiting Response For Kurdish-Teaching Schools

Kürdi Der Chairman Selahattin Gültekin said they have been awaiting a response regarding the reopening of Kurdish-teaching schools despite Education Minister’s statement.

24 September 2014

“Limiting Freedoms to One Field is Not Ethical”

“Limiting Freedoms to One Field is Not Ethical”

Abdullah Karahan from Eğitim-Sen Union criticized the recent allowing of students to wear headscarves in schools, reminding the compulsory religious classes and closure of Kurdish-language teaching schools.

23 September 2014

Education in Kurdish Not Allowed, Army Blocks Roads

Education in Kurdish Not Allowed, Army Blocks Roads

Following the arrival of Turkish Army officials to a school intended to teach classes in Kurdish in Diyarbakır’s Lice district, villagers tok the roads which was responded by blocking of all roads by army soldiers.

11 September 2014

“ISIL Crisis Urges Kurdish Unity”

“ISIL Crisis Urges Kurdish Unity”

PYD Co-President Salih Müslim Muhammad emphasized that the Kurds of Syria have been left alone in the battle against ISIL, and that the results thereof have now started to come to the fore. He stated that they extended a hand to Turkey, but the latter never took it.

bianet Evaluates Its Children-Focused Journalism

bianet Evaluates Its Children-Focused Journalism

bianet held its annual roundtable meeting on Children Rights Focused Journalism, discussing past year’s children news reporting’s procedure, language and context as well as next year's projects.

Istanbulites Take Streets For Berkin Elvan

Istanbulites Take Streets For Berkin Elvan

While the police used tear gas to break up protestors, at least man was reported injured in the head by a canister and a woman suffered from crush foot by a TOMA vehicle.

Bilingual Pamphlet to Prevent Children Rights Abuses

Bilingual Pamphlet to Prevent Children Rights Abuses

Turned down by officials for collaboration, Diyarbakır Bar Association Children Rights Center distributed a bilingual pamphlet - in Turkish and Kurdish - that aimed to inform children a list of contacts in case they were subjected to violence.

11 February 2014

Salih Muslim on Geneva 2

Salih Muslim on Geneva 2

PYD Co-Chair Salih Muslim told bianet that the stakeholders in Geneva 2 talks didn’t represent the Syrian people. “They can’t enforce a ceasefire given that they didn’t have any influence on the opposing groups in Syria,” he said.

29 January 2014

LGBTI-focused Training For Children Right Activists

LGBTI-focused Training For Children Right Activists

Kaos GL, an LGBTI organization, held a workshop with various NGOs, announcing that they decided to offer LGBTI trainings for children rights organizations and children rights trainings for LBGTI organizations.

6 December 2013

BDP Responses to Government’s Imrali Remarks

BDP Responses to Government’s Imrali Remarks

BDP Group Interim Chairperson Buldan told bianet on the recent remarks of Justice Minister Ergin on the off-listing of Imrali visitors who criticized the peace process.

4 November 2013

“1 Bathroom Per 8 Refugees"

“1 Bathroom Per 8 Refugees"

Platform to Monitor Syrian Refugees in Istanbul released a report on the situation of refugees, saying that most lived in poor accommodation and working conditions.

30 October 2013

“Impunity” in Child Worker Death Case

“Impunity” in Child Worker Death Case

An Adana province court issued a verdict in the case of Ahmet Yıldız (13), an undocumented child worker, died on the job due to a press machine. The defendant employer was ordered to pay 30,040 lira with 24 monthly installments.

High Participation Rates to School Boycott

High Participation Rates to School Boycott

Initiated by TZP-Kurdî Association, Kurdish students across the Kurdish populated areas in Turkey started a week long school boycott to demand their educational rights in mother tongue within constitutional assurance.

16 September 2013

Thermic Power Plant Project Cancelled

Thermic Power Plant Project Cancelled

The planned project of a thermic power plant construction in Gerze, in the northern province of Sinop has been suspended as the project zone partially was planned in the forest. “The file of Anadolu Group has been returned,” said Şengül Şahin from Yeşil Gerze Çevre Platform.

“All Taksim Projects Cancelled Including Barracks”

TAYFUN KAHRAMAN FROM TAKSİM SOLIDARITY COMMENTED

“All Taksim Projects Cancelled Including Barracks”

Tayfun Kahraman from Taksim Solidarity underlined the importance of latest’s court rejection on the suspension order of construction projects, reminding the expert report.

Child Worker Death Case Defendant Released Pending Trial

Child Worker Death Case Defendant Released Pending Trial

An Adana court released the defendant in the case of Ahmet Yıldız, a child worker who died on the job by a press machine.

Every Park Become Gezi Park in Turkey

RESISTANCE CONTINUES WITH FORUMS

Every Park Become Gezi Park in Turkey

Gezi Parkers are now discussing the transformation of their movement, saying that “PM did not kick us out of the park, he made everywhere a Gezi Park”.

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