To become a citizen... Trainers and Students Books
1998
FOREWORD
Nazire Dedeman
Founder President of Umut Foundation
Education is expected to have an important role in our young people becoming influential and participating citizen. Citizens who have adopted the values that should exist in a democratic society, aware of their rights and responsibilities, who own and see to the princşiples and values behind human rights, supremacy of law, state governed by the rule of law can be brought up by providing training opprtunities which give the necessary information and skills for these.
Whilst learning the methods of learning about concepts such as law, justice, responsibility, crime, punishment as well as human rights, democratic values, fundamental democratic organizations, the limitations of rights and freedoms, being aware of rights and the ways to protect them they should also gain knowledge of the methods of becoming people who know their responsibilities as a more active citizen, who respect the supremacy of law but can work in collaboration in order to improve the justice system.
Umut Raising Honorable Leaders Foundation, as a non-governmental organization aiming to raise young people with the above values is aware of its responsibility in this matter. Therefore, it was only natural that Umut Foundation has added a book for second grade students which covers mainly human rights, basic freedom respecting these and a parallel Trainers Handbook to the skill-gaining activities it has been initiating in line with its aim to raise young people who have internalized the supremacy of law, who support peace not violence (e.g. group workshops on conflict resolution, reconciliation and mediation)
How nice it is to make our young people become aware of the necessity of being a citizen and support them in gaining the necessary skills to become an active citizen.
I would like to thank distinguished authors Asst. Prof. Dr. Dilek Gözütok, Dr. Şebnem Akipek; Research Assistants Tufan Erhürman, Fatma Özdemir Uluç and Melike Türkan Bağlı who have contributed to the book titled To become a citizen... for the past two years and to Prof. Dr. İpek Gürkaynak, the president of the group of authors who have tried to create a friendly book with their extra efforts, the Project Manager, who has started and made a great effort so that this book can be written from the beginning till the end and in fact spared no effort to meticulously check the illustrations and even the page setups one by one during the printing stage.
I would like to thank Tayfa, the agency which did the creative works of the book, Sevil Emili İlemre, who edited the book, the illustrators Behiç Ak, Uğurcan Ataoğlu, Şenol Bezci, Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Gürbüz Doğan Ekşioğlu, Ceren İncesu, Halil İncesu, Mesut Kayalar, Osman Kehri, Huban Korman,Tan Oral, Nilgün Öneş, Emre Senan, Cem Şehirli, Haluk Tuncay, Mehmet Ulusel and Murat Yılmaza, Ofset Printhouse for their valuable contributions in the second edition and everyone who contributed to this book.
For tomorrows success, with hope!...