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2014 GOC EDENLER SOSYAL YARDIMLAŞMA VE KÜLTÜR DERNEĞİ-

2014 GOC EDENLER SOSYAL YARDIMLAŞMA VE KÜLTÜR DERNEĞİ- IMMIGRANTS’ ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL COOPERATION AND CULTURE. What is Forced Migration ? According to William Peterson ,

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2014 GOC EDENLER SOSYAL YARDIMLAŞMA VE KÜLTÜR DERNEĞİ-

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  1. 2014 GOC EDENLER SOSYAL YARDIMLAŞMA VE KÜLTÜR DERNEĞİ- IMMIGRANTS’ ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL COOPERATION AND CULTURE

  2. What is Forced Migration ? • According to William Peterson, • Migrationoccurring without people’s will and resulting from the problems experienced in a region or from the environmental conditions making it hard to live in a region • Accordingtomodified UN definitionof IDPs, • “the internally displaced are the persons or groups of persons who have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual residence, in particular, as a result of, or in order to avoid the effects of, armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights or natural or human-made disasters, and who have not crossed an internationally recognized state border”

  3. Batman-DervisanVillage • InTurkey • At theharsh time of conflictbetweenthe Turkish state and the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK)theTurkisharmyforcesevacuatedvillagesandhamletswiththeaim of undermining the popular support and logistic assistance attained byPKK from Kurdish people

  4. İzmit They had tomigratewithoutanypreparation. Inonenightorforsome of them, just in a couple of hourstheyhavetoleavetheirhomeandvillages.

  5. Batman • Someof provincialsandsub-provincials in whichintenseevacuationexisted: Lice, Kulp, Cizre, andthecenter of Sirnak- in SoutheastAnatolian • Thenumber of evacuatedvillages: 3438 • Theapproximatenumber of forcedmigrants (InternallyDisplacedPersons): 3.5-4 million

  6. İzmir-Torbali Bursa-Karacabey • Followingtheevacuation: • Beingsubjectedtolive in outskirts of bigcities of theregionand western metropolisesin miserableconditions

  7. Adana-Karataş-Tuzla • At thebeginning: • Deprivedof righttolive, righttoresettlementfreely, benefitingfromeducationalandhealthcarefacilitiesandalsooppurtunitiesof employment in placestheyhavemigratedto.

  8. Van • Thechildrenof forciblydisplacedfamiliesaremostlydeprived of children’sbasicrightsandmost of themaredeprived of educationalopportunitiesbecause of lack of identitycard, languageandpovertyproblemsetc.

  9. İzmir-Torbalı İstanbul Fatih Intheresettledcitiesmost of thechildrenhavetowork in miserableconditionsand in theinformalsectors in ordertosurviveandcontributetohouseholdeconomy.

  10. Bursa

  11. Picturesfromtheirlivingareasafterdisplacement

  12. Thescenes of povertyanddeprivation

  13. Immigrants’ AssociationforSocialCooperationandCulture (GOC-DER) • Founded in April 27th, 1997 after a period of intensifiedpractices of mass-displacements • A member of Migration Platform which is composed of AmedGoc-Der, Van Goc-Der, Akdeniz Goc-Der since 2008 andthisyear Göç-Der Cizre has beenestablishedandnowadayswearetryingtohaveGoc-der in İzmir onemore. • Objectives : • toprovidecooperationamongmigrantsandvoiceouttheirdemandsfor a morehumanelife • - operating as a socialnetwork enablingmigrantstocometogetherandorganizingpublic network in ordertopublicisethetragedyexperiencedbymillions of peopleunknowntothepublic

  14. Since 1998 eachyeartheassociationhas arrangedtheactivities of Migration Week in orderto put thetragedy of mass-displacement on agendaandmakethemigrationquestion be debated in search of findingsolutions.

  15. Conductedprojects: • «Literacy Course andHealthSeminarsForWomen» • Reading andWritingcoursefortwentyForcedMigrantWomenfor 5 months

  16. «New HorizonsFortheForcedMigrantYouth» ComputerCourse washeldin ordertoteachthembasiccomputerskillsforfindingjob

  17. «PlayroomForChildren» In Ayazma, a playroomwasestablishedforforcedmigrantchildren, in whichchildrenlearn how tosharethecommonspaceand time Thechildrensharedsimilarproblemstrytocombatwiththeirtraumatichistory

  18. «Ayazma Health Project» Twophysicalterapistsand a nurseprovidedhealthchecktotheIDPswithouthealthinsurance in Ayazma, Istanbulfor 4 yearstwice a week. Freemedicineandcheckupwasprovidedthroughthisproject.

  19. SeveralReports on theSocial, Economic, andCulturalConditions of ForcedMigrants in Turkey • Some of them: • A report on forcedmass-displacementcoveringDiyarbakır,Van Batman, Istanbul,IzmirandMersin between 1999-2001 has beenprepared. Basinguponinterviewswith 2139 families, thereportincludesthecausesandimpacts of massdisplacement on thepeople. Thesample is composed of 17.845 people. • A report on economic, socialandculturalrights of Kurdishforcedmigrants has beenpublished in 2011, whichincludesinterviews with 1541 people in 9 provinces

  20. To cover problems experiinced by the victims of mass-dislplacement and bring those problems to the attention of related authorities intellectuals and other migration victims a periodical named “Göç-Der Haber Bülteni” has started its publishing life in June 1998 and left behind its 22nd issue • Although it was sued many times during its publishing life it was acquitted of them Monthlybulletins on theprocess of internaldisplacementandthesituation of theforcedmigrantswerepublishedduringtheintenseperiod of migration.

  21. Ourcurrentpublishedreports: • Göz Ardı Edilenler İstanbul’da Yaşayan Suriyeli Sığınmacılar – March 2013 • Türkiye’de Koruculuk Sistemi: Zorunlu Göç ve Köye Geri Dönüşler (TheVillageGuardSystem in Turkey: Forced Migration andReturningBack) – June 2013 • Yok Sayılanlar Kamp Dışında Yaşayan Suriye’den Gelen Sığınmacılar – September 2013

  22. Projectsin Progressand Marmara Göç İzleme Platformu (Platform of Marmara forMonitoring Migration) • «Migration Stories of Non-Muslims in the 1990s» , an oral historybookprojectincludingcollectingmigrationstories of Armenians, Asyrians, Ezidis, andChaldeans • «The determination and mapping of the evacuated, burned and destroyed living areas with the Emergency Rule declared by the state during the years 1984-2000» , a researchprojectforprovidingthe data on theevacuatedvillagesin twentythreecities • «Hard toStayorEvenHarderto Return», measuringthetendency of IDPstowardsreturningbacktovillages • Marmara Göç İzleme Platformu (Platform of Marmara forMonitoring Migration) : a platform formonitoringtheproblemsandneeds of IDPsduringthepeaceprocess in TurkeyandprovidingsolutionsandaidtotheIDPswhowanttoreturnbacktotheirvillagesorstay in thehostcities • - legal assessment of currentlawsandprovisionswithregardstoneeds of thosereturnees • - Kadim Toraklara Dönüş Projesi (Return to Ancient Villages Project ): designedrepresentativevillages in Dicle (Xaçek ve Heridan)

  23. Immigrants’ AssociationForSocialCooperationandCulture (GOC-DER) 2014 Halıcılar Cad. Uğursaray Apt. No:92/15 Fatih/Istanbul Tel: 0090 212 635 61 22 Fax: 0090 212 532 77 71 E-mail: gocderistanbul@gmail.com

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