YAHADER — Yaşam Hakları Derneği

The most basic right of man and other living things is to live. In particular, the application of fundamental rights and freedoms for people depends primarily on the right to life.

According to the third article of the Human Rights Declaration, everyone's right to life is under the protection of the law.

This means that no one, including the state, can try to end your life. This also means that the state should take appropriate measures to protect you and, in some cases, taking steps to protect you if your life is at risk.

In this sense, our association takes into account that civil society plays an important role in raising awareness by producing and promoting these rights in the implementation of fundamental rights and freedoms which are dependent on the right to life.

When we try to understand the rights of citizens of a country (political, survival, cultural) without referring to universal human rights, we are confronted with the current limitations of that country. Turkey, as a country that has signed the International Human Rights Declaration is already declared its recognition of universal rights.

As a non-governmental organization, as stated in our statute with the motivation to increase the quality of life by facilitating the lives of people living in this society with other living beings (without any discrimination like language, religion, race) we set out to make a contribution within the framework of human rights, animal rights, working life, education rights, health rights and ecological life.

Sibel ERDUMAN

She was born in 1962 in Istanbul. She attended secondary and high school in Üsküdar then decided to live in England and studied Film, Video and Photography in London. She worked as a photographer in England for a while. At that time, she carried out a photography project on Women Representation in the Media with Asian women. Between 1994 and 1998, she worked as a interpreter in London. She returned to Turkey in 2004 and she was one of the founders of “stand against racism" platform. She has also carried out social projects for the Galata Photography House and the Basak Foundation. So she will continue her work in civil our Association of Right to Life.

Erdoğan ÇALAK

He was born in 1953 in Istanbul. He completed his high school education in Galatasaray High School and he studied and continued his career education in Istanbul Medical Faculty. He received psychoanalytic training during and after his career education and went through psychoanalysis himself. After his career education he worked in his own practice. He has been in psychiatry and psychotherapy practice for 35 years. He has three books: How Human Becomes Human, Psychology of Mother and Motherhood, and Staying Human in the Global System. He has two daughters.

Seyfettin GÖRÜNMEK

Seyfettin was born in 1980 in Şirvan. He has been living in Istanbul since he was 2 years old. After graduating from Beylerbeyi High School, he studied Uludağ University Dairy Products and Anadolu University Business Administration. Seyfettin is married and has three children. As a hardworking, optimistic and contentious person he has always tried to do his best both in civil society and active political life.

Ezgi Doğan

She was born in Istanbul. She attended high school in Istanbul. She started her university education in Sakarya University, Department of Business Administration. Later, her professional direction changed and she started to study psychology at Bilgi University. She completed her master's degree in clinical psychology at Bahçeşehir University. During the same period, she completed the Dance Therapy program at Bilgi University. She is currently a PhD candidate in clinical psychology at Istanbul Arel University. She works as a psychotherapist in Istanbul.

Özlem SEZER BAYRAM

Özlem was born in Ankara in 1965, Özlem graduated from secondary and high school in Istanbul. She graduated from ITU Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, which she started in 1982 and finished in 12 years and she took couple of years off in between. During this time she has also worked. She worked in IT sector for many years in software and hardware maintenance and repair. Although she liked her profession she was always more interested in social and political issues and, after her retirement, was actively involved in politics and feminist struggle. Özlem has always been a person of difficult projects.

Rana BERK

She was born in 1964 in Istanbul. She completed secondary and high school in Karamürsel, Kocaeli. Then she studied Journalism at Marmara University. Although she wanted to be a journalist she was able to work as a journalist for a short time. Later she decided to become a researcher, worked in this sector for many years and in 2005 became the founding partner of Hedef Grup Research. For Rana being a journalist meant taking side with disadvantaged and Rana aims to realize this ideal in our association which she could not realize as a journalist.

Yücel KURŞUN

Yücel was born in Istanbul in 1982. In 2006, he graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Forestry. After working as a chorographer project manager he chose photography as his profession. He worked in Istanbul Photography Workshop for three years. He is working as a freelance photographer since 2016.

Anıl OLCAN

Anıl became interested in photography in high school. After graduating from Istanbul Bilgi University Photography and Video Department, he participated in various exhibitions. In 2017, he opened his first solo exhibition named Out of Rooms, which consists of photographs taken during his seasonal worker. His photo series have been published in various literary magazines. He took part in international projects related to social problems. He produced documentaries and videos about civil society and social movements. His articles on photography have been published in many magazines. He continues to produce personal and social photography series. He is a member of a music group.

ADDRESS

Aziz Mahmud Hüdai Mahallesi,
Kançal İş Merkezi NO:58/19
Üsküdar / İstanbul / Türkiye

PHONE

+90 216 310 50 13

President of the Association

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Secretary