This month IFSW Secretary-General, Rory Truell meet with the Turkish Association of Social Workers in Ankara. The visit was organised to bring messages of support and solidarity to Turkish social workers from the professions international community. The political tensions in Turkey following the Coup threaten the human rights of all citizens and also the social work […]
IFSW wishes to support our social work academic colleague in Turkey who is facing detention along with other academics following their support for a petition calling for peace and criticizing Turkish military operations in the Kurdish south-east. The document was prompted by a Turkish government offensive against the outlawed separatist group Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or […]
IFSW member The Turkish Association of Social Workers are preparing volunteers in crisis and trauma intervention following a bombing that killed 97 peace demonstrators on the 10th October. Secretary-General of TASW, Mehmet Can Özkaya said, “This is the worst attack in the history of our Republic. We have had to respond immediately and are […]
On 13 May 2014 an explosion occurred at a coal mine in Soma, Turkey. According to official statements this was caused by faulty electrical equipment and resulted in 298 people losing their lives. IFSW Europe e.V. wishes to express our deepest sympathy to the relatives and friends of the victims of this disaster and to […]
Below you find a statement from our colleagues of the Turkish Association of Social Workers (TASW) in light of the uprising by Turkish people across the country and the national strike organised by the Trades Unions. Starting from a demonstration to protect Gezi Park from being turned into a commercial hotel, a mass countrywide movement […]
‘The creativity and determination of social workers in the face of funding cuts, salary reductions and the growing stigmatisation of poor and disabled people was evident at the biennial conference of the European Network for Social Action in Istanbul in April 2013’, reports David N Jones, the IFSW President’s Special Representative on the Global Agenda […]
PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The European Observatory on Social Work and Social Development was launched today in Istanbul at the conference of the European Network for Social Action in Istanbul. Susan Lawrence (President of the European Association of Schools of Social Work), Christian Rollet (President of ICSW Europe) and Cristina Martins (President […]