content tagged with disability rights

Disability-Focused Journalism Workshop ends: 'We must kill the ableist in our heads'

Disability-Focused Journalism Workshop ends: 'We must kill the ableist in our heads'

On the second and final day of the workshop, participants analyzed news stories involving human rights violations, discussed the principles of accessible journalism, and practiced rights-based reporting and interviewing techniques during sessions led by Mihriban Boyacı.

25 June 2026 Evrim Gündüz

'The history of disability is also the history of normality'

DISABILITY-FOCUSED JOURNALISM WORKSHOP

'The history of disability is also the history of normality'

Elif Nur Aybaş and Meral Sözen took part in the first day of the Disability-Focused Journalism Workshop.

24 June 2026 Evrim Gündüz

Those who are everywhere and nowhere: Toward an anti-capitalist disability movement

Those who are everywhere and nowhere: Toward an anti-capitalist disability movement

The Eskişehir Disability Solidarity Network transformed its slogan "Speed belongs to capitalism, life belongs to us," determined through common pursuits rising from different cities, into a bodily truth at the May 1 area.

9 May 2026 Selman Saç

‘Ministry admits restricting the right to transport of citizens with disabilities’

CHP MP ÇAKIRÖZER

‘Ministry admits restricting the right to transport of citizens with disabilities’

In his response to CHP MP Çakırözer’s Parliamentary question, the Minister of Transport has admitted that disabled citizens’ right to use transportation free of charge in the High-Speed Train (YHT) and main intercity train lines has been unlawfully restricted.

22 October 2020

Documentarian Çayan Demirel gains the right of disability retirement

Documentarian Çayan Demirel gains the right of disability retirement

Though it has long been confirmed by a medical report that documentarian Demirel is 99 percent disabled, he was struggling for his right of disability retirement for 4.5 years. The state will now automatically raise an objection as it has lost the lawsuit.

29 September 2020 Ayşegül Özbek