Lawyer Elvan Kılıç wrote a special article for World Refugee Day on June 20. Refugee refers to all foreigners who have been forced to leave their country because of war and persecution, or because of fear of persecution, and who have applied for or are seeking to apply for asylum in other countries. It is the greatest right of the refugees to be provided with the basic needs each individual should have. Equal rights, benefits and basic needs granted to other foreigners living in countries where refugees had to apply for asylum should be given to refugees as well.
They must live in the same conditions in the countries where they seek asylum just the way they can benefit from social and economic rights, education and health services in their own countries. Refugees are protected by the state in accordance with the provisions of the 1951 Convention. In order to be granted refugee status, their asylum requests must be accepted by the country they have arrived. Those whose asylum request is accepted are granted refugee status. The refugees have rights to freedom of religion, to benefit from civil rights, to acquire movable and immovable property, the right to intellectual and industrial property, the right to association, the right to be a party in the courts, the right to work, the right to establish a company and to start a business in fields of agriculture, industry, art and trade, the right to practice their profession, the right to document, the right to acquire housing, the right to education, the right to social aid, the right to benefit from social insurance and labor legislation without discrimination and being exempt from exceptional precautions applied to the country they are the citizen of, according tp the 1951 Convention. Only in certain cases can exceptions be applied; to give examples of such exceptional cases, states can restrict the exercise of certain rights, such as freedom of movement and work and the proper placement of all children in school in case of large-scale refugee flows.
The social problems of women, not only nowadays but also for a long time, continue regardless of whether they are celebrities, artists, professionals, business women or not. In addition, there are many women who flee from the countries where they have experienced persecution, only to receive a heavy blow from the country they arrive in as refugees. 80 percent of the refugee population consists of women and children. Therefore, women and children are the first to be affected in the slightest incident. Women are exposed to gender-based violence and may face difficulties from being abused by their spouse to forced recruitment to army. There are no solutions created by the stated as to how the refugees, especially the population coming to Turkey from Syria, will earn their livelihood, how their social and cultural needs will be met, how they can work under normal conditions without being used as a cheap labor source. Today small Syrian children in Turkey have become beggars or they are made to work 15-16 hours a day for a small payment. They are also regarded as strangers and looked down on. It is a fundamental right of people to be protected and to have their rights protected by the state. Refugees, like any other citizen living in the country they arrive, must benefit from this right. Thus, refugees enjoy fundamental civil rights, such as freedom of thought and movement, and not being exposed to torture and non-degrading treatment. This is not an issue of choice for the government. It is necessary and extremely important to make arrangements on the principles of refugee reception in our country.
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