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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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’.