Page 9 - Syrians in Türkiye - Special Report

GRAND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF TÜRKİYE THE OMBUDSMAN INSTITUTION

The forces that have overtaken the means of production aspire to possess every
living thing on earth. Therefore, they build their new concept on the idea of
humans’ being unnecessary. However, it is possible to live together peacefully on
earth; acknowledging mankind as “the most honorable being” created by God and
protecting his dignity will facilitate the resolution of these problems.

The first paragraph of Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
defines the right to asylum as follows:

“Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from
persecution.”

Signatories of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are presenting all kinds
of obstacles in order to prevent migrants from benefiting from the right of refuge
that these parties have recognized in the declaration.

It is useful to identify a point correctly: no one is arbitrarily dismantling his
home, leaving his homeland, and taking refuge at the mercy of other nations to
survive without force majeure. People take to the roads to establish a new order for
themselves. Those who cause them to emigrate from their homes do not have the
right to complain about the problems that these people bring.

Those who create many obstacles, such as not allowing asylum seekers to work and
not taking them under the social security system in order to avoid sharing their
prosperity, have to create other options for those people to survive other than tent
cities.

The person we refer to as a refugee or immigrant is a person with limited freedoms
because he has no citizenship rights. Limited freedom is against human nature
because the human is a free entity. It is only possible to be a rights holder and
to fulfill one’s responsibilities by having personal liberty. The right to life is an
inherent right.

The phenomenon of migration and asylum causes unjust suffering that can easily
be avoided if desired. The most tangible example of this victimization is the tragedy
of Aylan Kurdi, whose tragic death made people face their conscience after his tiny
body washed onto the shores of the Aegean Sea, like the plight of thousands of
other children and their parents.

SYRIANS IN TÜRKİYE SPECIAL REPORT 9