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January 2010

14 January 2010
AKDER has requested from The Ministry of National Education that a juristical and administive investigation should be opened about Director of National Education in Kestel town of Province of Bursa, Mr. Gültekin Özcan. Because, he expelled parent of a student, Sevda Can, from the meeting of Advisory Committee of Kestel Town due to her wearing of headscarf.

February 2010

Research Project titled ‘The Veil’ which assesses the headscarf issue academically, has been carried out in both Europe and Turkey; within this scope a round tabl

27 February 2010

 4th seminar of AKDER Saturday Seminars called “Introduction to Philosophy of Continental Europe-What is dialectic? was performed. The following questions were answered by Süheyb Öğüt: How consciousness arised?  How consciousness work? Is objective information possible? What is the meaning of differentiation between subject and object? Did Hegel solve the opposition between historic and transcendental? What kind of relation was there between total and partial?.

e meeting was hold and our Deputy President Fatma Benli, JD has attended the meeting.

 

March 2009

Michelangelo Severgnini who is an Italian Director visited Turkey for his film Project, and his team’s member, Nazli Bilgic met with Burcu Kalpaklioglu, Sumeyye Kavuncu, Havva Yilmaz and Neslihan Akbulut from AKDER

April 2009

28.04. 2009

Angela Wu, who is from Becket Fund Association, visited AKDER and she met our deputy president and members.

May 2009

25.05.2009
Anna Rosendahl, Jessica Pellrud and Mrs. Cecilia Jansson who are behalf of SİDA, a Sweden STK, made a meeting with our vice president and general secretary about women’s problems.’

06.05. 2009
Our vice president attended the program titled ‘Reha Muhtar’la Çok Farklı’ which publishes on CNN TURK and she explained her ideas about prohibitions and perceptions in Turkey.

June 2009

26.06.2009
Our vice president’s announce was issued by Tercüman newspaper for discontinue broadcasting about a program which is featured in ATV called ‘Ah Be Güzelim’ TV Program. It has showed women as silly and objective thing which gave point by the men about failure of general knowledge of the women.

July 2009

30.07. 2009
Damla Işık, who is working in Western Connecticut State University as an antropolog, visited our vice president for her study which is about ‘ STK’s and their positions in Turkey.’ She took information about the problem of headscarf’s human rights and its political dimension.

August 2009

05.08.2009
Newspaper of Zaman took ideas about this sentence which was said by president of İstanbul Bar: ‘Equality is in equal people.’ from our vice president.
Merve Kütük  and Meryem İlayda met with our vice president because of a study about fixing and detention of discrimination  at university. Our vice president told her ideas about benefit the public service who headscarfed 

September 2009

16.09.2009
AKDER entertained a well attended dinner in Topkapı foundation because of Ramadan. President of association, Dr. Refia Kızılhan explained mission of association and vice president conveyed information about AKDER’s activities the during the last year.

October 2009

30.10. 2009
Our vice president made a statement to the press about criminal complaint that was made by Association of Europe Republic Women concerning minister’s wives of headscarf. It was expressed that the arguments, which their wives act improperly to the law and of clothing and they can not represent Turkish women, are not legal and it confuses the public opinion.

November 2009

6 November 2009
AKDER has sent a 4-year report of violation of rights to United Nation, Human Rights Committee. The report was about the difficulties for covered women in education, employment and political area and how Turkey has prevented them using their rights according to the International conventions.

December 2009

31 December 2009
Magazine of Tohum included evaluation of Our Vice President about ‘the lower coefficient to calculate the university admission examination scores of  graduates of vocational high schools including Imam-Hatip High Schools’.




Akder Reports

European Court Of Human Rights Under The Light Of Leyla Sahin Decision

Though during the 80s it is a time-to time recurring food of controversy; “headscarf in the Turkish Universities”, become a material problem after the February 28 Post-Modern coup d’Etat. First the sentence of “Behaviors about the apparel which are emerged against law, push the Turkey into an outdated image; shall be banned; the law and Constitutional Court Decisions about this subject shall be applied without any exception especially on the public instutions and associations.” had been added to the well-known MGK (National Security Council) decisions.

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Women Right's Law

The criminal law that would be brought into force in April, 2005 was adopted in National Assembly and many provisions were not evaluated attentively partly due to deliberately formed debate about adultery. However, before the legislation process, the draft law came in for critisism and then was sent back to Subcommittee in the National Assembly.

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Akder Reports

This work aims to determine how the attempt of banning the religious symbols at the educational institutions of the European Union Country Bulgaria will affect its position on the democratic rights and freedoms. The bill envisaging the ban on religious symbols at all the educational institutions will disrupt the right to equal educational opportunity on one hand and also violate the most basic principles of the international human rights law against discrimination on the other hand.

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impact of the ban

A STATISTICAL EXAMINATION OF THE CONDITION OF WOMEN IN TURKEY AND THE IMPACT OF THE HEADSCARF BAN ON TURKEY’S GENDER EQUALITY RANKING

ABSTRACT

The United States Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, in a judgment in 1927 stated that “Men feared witches and burnt women.” While problems of women’s rights, modernization, human rights, and democracy are being discussed throughout the rest of the world in the 21st century, Turkey, for the last twelve years, has been preoccupied with whether women with headscarves have the right to enter higher education institutions. The talk is of progress and the contemporary world, but what is actually happening is that women who wear the headscarf are being excluded from society, and while the arguments about the headscarf/turban drag on, no serious steps are being taken about women’s existing and all-too-real problems.

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