AWP: Today is the day to unite, fight together and protect our country

LOOKING at the New Year to come the Atatürk World Platform evaluates in a statement made by the AWP and Atatürk Society UK (ASUK) chair Jale Ozer highlights concerns that Turkey faces 2022.

Saying “… In the OECD’s Better Life Index are ranked with equal importance, Turkey ranks 38th among 41 countries, making it one of the most difficult countries to live in.”

Ozer states by 2022 “Violence against women, harassment and women’s deaths have reached the highest level…” as well as a growing “culture of violence” in Turkey touching on the decision by the government to leave the Istanbul Convention, as well as their “foreign-dependent policies…” saying it ignores the principle of “Peace at home, peace in the world” while 2022 will see them “entering a dark period…” for education.

Saying: “ Today is the day to unite, fight together and protect our country.

“With this awareness and the great responsibility that falls on us, we greet the year 2022, emphasizing that we will never let the tree of hope, that lofty sycamore of the Republic, dry up within us; We promise once again that we will fight together for a free and more democratic Turkey on the path of modern civilization that Atatürk aimed!”