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Association Name and Center
Association Name: “Understanding and Social Support Association of Disadvantaged Groups” (DEGDER). The center of the association is Ankara. The association can open branches at home and abroad.
Activity Subjects
The association eliminates the mental, physical and social barriers of disadvantaged groups, especially individuals with special needs; they have equal rights with all individuals in society and end discriminatory practices against them; It was established with the aim of advocating for individuals with special needs to maintain an integrated life with society and to fight against all kinds of practices and policies that may lead to isolation, and to carry out necessary studies to make all public or private living spaces and services accessible to everyone in accordance with the universal design principle.
Study Subjects and Formats
1- To investigate the mentally, physically or socially disabling individuals and to take the necessary solutions to eliminate them and to take steps to implement these suggestions.

2- To follow scientific and technical developments in the world and our country in the field of special requirements and to share the information obtained with the public.

3- If the necessary infrastructure is provided, with the belief that the individual with the special needs has the potential to do all kinds of professions, to identify barriers to the employment and professional development of the disabled and to develop solutions for their elimination.

4- Combating individuals with special needs of the state and society on the one hand, society and the state of the individual with special needs, material and moral abuse, and any kind of positive or negative discrimination; to make every attempt regarding reasonable harmonization required by the state and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

5- Conducting researches to activate and develop its activities suitable for the purpose.

6- To organize educational or sportive activities such as courses, seminars, conferences and panels suitable for the purpose.

7- To publish publications such as newspapers, magazines, books and bulletins in order to provide all kinds of information, documents, documents and publications necessary for the realization of the purpose, to establish a documentation center, to establish a library, to announce its works.

8- To provide a healthy working environment for achieving the goal, to provide all kinds of technical tools and equipment, fixtures and stationery materials.

9- Providing appropriate aid collection activities on the condition that necessary permits are obtained and accepting donations from home and abroad.

10- To establish and operate economic, commercial and industrial enterprises in order to provide the revenues needed for the realization of the statute objectives.

11- To open a local, to establish social and cultural facilities and to furnish them for the benefit of their members and their leisure time.

12- Dinner meetings, concerts, balls, theaters, exhibitions, sports, trips and entertaining events, etc., for the development and maintenance of human relations among its members. organizing or enabling its members to benefit from such activities.

13- To purchase, sell, rent, lease and establish real rights on immovable properties that are needed for the activities of the association.

14- If it is deemed necessary to realize the goal, to establish foundations at home and abroad, to establish a federation or to join an established federation, to establish facilities that associations can establish with the necessary permission.

15- To carry out international activities, to become a member of associations or organizations abroad and to cooperate with or cooperate with these organizations.

16- If necessary, to carry out joint projects with the public institutions and organizations in the fields of their duties, without prejudice to the provisions of the Law No. 5072 on Associations and Foundations' Relations with Public Institutions and Organizations.

17- Establishing a chest to meet the essential items such as food, clothing, and other goods and services and short-term credit needs of the members of the Association.

18- To open branches and representative offices where deemed necessary.

19- To create platforms in order to achieve a common goal with other associations or foundations, unions and similar non-governmental organizations in areas that are related to the purpose of the association and are not prohibited by law.

20- To carry out all kinds of activities that are required for the realization of the purpose and which are not prohibited by law.

21- Making initiatives for the employment of individuals with special needs in the public and private sectors.

22- To identify and display accessibility problems, discriminatory behaviors faced by individuals with special needs during the education process, and to develop solutions.

23- Official structures belonging to public institutions and organizations, all existing roads, sidewalks, pedestrian crossings, open and green areas, sports fields and similar social and cultural areas, and all kinds of structures and areas constructed by natural and legal persons and providing public services. Struggling and preparing projects to make the individuals in need accessible.

24- To carry out studies to eliminate transportation related accessibility problems of individuals with special needs.

25- To increase the accessibility of individuals with special needs in written, electronic and digital (books, websites, television channels, etc.) in all areas, and to work to overcome the obstacles encountered.

26- To work on the ability of individuals with special needs to exercise their democratic and political rights equally and independently.

27- Struggling with the relevant persons and organizations to make all kinds of products and services both suitable for the design and planning, presentation, labeling and invoicing, and the post-sale processes for the unobstructed access of the consumer with special needs, and the struggle for the implementation of legal regulations on the subject. give.

28- To conduct scientific studies in the academic field on special needs, to participate in existing studies, to collect scientific studies and publications, to create a database, to carry out national and international projects.

29- Advertising and sponsoring programs for disabled people, in order to enlighten the public about the problems of individuals with special needs and the ways of solving problems, to create public opinion, to promote the association and to inform the public.

30- To take action before the authorities in order to make the necessary legal changes in order to solve the problems of individuals with special needs, and to go to the judiciary in case of violation of social, economic, cultural and professional rights and to establish a legal commission for this purpose.

31- The objectives of the establishment are to support the work of similar associations, foundations or initiatives, to the extent possible, to organize international meetings, to participate in organized meetings, to cooperate with similar and national and international associations and organizations, in Turkey and abroad opening branches and representative offices, establishing federations and platforms or joining established federations and platforms.

32- To encourage families with special needs individuals to organize by informing them within the association or independently and increasing their awareness.
Membership Transactions
The membership application to be made in writing to the presidency of the association is decided by the board of directors of the association in the form of acceptance or rejection of the membership within thirty days, and the result is notified to the applicant in writing. The member whose application has been accepted is recorded in the book kept for this purpose.

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Board of Directors
PRESIDENT
Dr.Faruk AYIN

MEMBERS
Av.Hikmet AYDIN
Mimar Elif SARAÇ