The guests of the Wednesday Conferences of the Center for Economic and Social Research (ESAM) became İsrafil Bayrakçı, President of the Felicity Party Disability Coordination Center and Burhan Gümrükçü, Chairman of the Anatolian Disability Association.
MPs, bureaucrats and a large number of citizens participated in the program which was held in the ESAM Conference Hall with the subject of "Barrier-Free Society, Accessible Life".
15 PERCENT OF THE WORLD IS DISABLED
Bayrakçı pointed out that the state should follow a policy for disabled people and emphasized that the state should implement preventive policies due to the situation.
Bayrakci said that because of the policies of the imperialist countries, functional disorders have occurred in the health of people in many parts of the world and said, "There are thousands of disabled people in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. In our country, we have citizens who suffer from terrorism and remain disabled. Global powers are fueling disability. According to the United Nations report, 15 percent of the world is disabled. There are 1 billion disabled people in the world."
"REGULATIONS REGARDING THE DISABLED CONTINUOUSLY DELAYED"
Providing information about the difficulties experienced by the disabled at the point of transportation Bayrakçı, said that arrangements to make life easier for the disabled are postponed.
Bayrakçı stressed that the competent authorities should address the difficulties experienced by disabled people in the transportation point.
"The government and the municipalities need to increase their efforts towards the disabled on social services," he said.
"WE ARE ALL INDIVIDUALS OF THIS SOCIETY"
Chairman of Anatolian Association of Disabled People Burhan Gümrükçü pointed out that disabled citizens should take part in high level points and said, "Everyone knows that the economy of the country will be produced. But to produce is a matter of mentality and ability. Everybody knows I don't see my eyes. Knows that a friend of ours has orthopedic disabilities. But if we don't change our minds, we ignore that he is an individual of this society. Thinking about it is a matter of mentality. The disabled have all kinds of rights. We are all members of this society. Look at us this way. Some people are fat, some are weak, and we are visually impaired. However, we do things by seeing you in different ways. This is the only difference!"