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1. What is your dream?
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I dont know if my dreams will realise but I hope to succeed to reach my dreams. In our country Turkey, deaf people are less educated or not educated, live unlawfully and have big problems in having jobs. Now, I will mention about my experience. My dream was actually to be a lawyer of deaf people for their rights. When I was in senior class of high school, I made research about being lawyer and also met up with the authorized people in education but I got the negative answer unfortunately. I was so disappointed in this unlawful country.. I was in secondary school, two deaf people visit my school. Because of my good grades, my principal called me and made me talk to them. One of them was tourism businessman and the other was the student of law department. I was so influenced by that student. Because in our country, being a deaf lawyer was impossible. By that day, I am so desirous to be lawyer. Despite of that, I succeeded to have right to enter a university but I decided that the departmıents except law were not for me so I didn't go to the university.Marxism, Leninism and Darwinism thoughts influnced me when I was 14. I am a philosopher and my philosophy is that "It is necessary to ban unbanned things. People who don't know why they are banned, teach them to children without conscious so how can they answer? They cannot answer, they ban things without shame, they can only answer as they live these banned things as. Unbanned things are opposite to unfairness, inequality, illiteracy, ignorance, cultural degeneration, loss of honour, lack of public spirit, insensitivity and insincerity."My dream is to create a Deaf World Solidarity which defends the rights of deaf people.
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2. How does your dream improve your Deaf community?
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I am very sorry that nothing has improved until now in Turkey. There is no subtitles on TV channels, no translators. No translators in both public and private hospitals. No online web cams in all the call centers (for example, process of credi card password). We need doctors, lawyers etc. so we must have translators. Deaf people go to abroad for UN, they work hard but it is not enough and there is no still any solution. Let me express my real feelings about that. If I were them, I'd work so hard to find any solution and I could do everything. Now in our lives, we see all the deaf people's problems still continuing for many years.If I can create the Deaf World Solidarity, I hope to solve all the problems in our country and to work hard for reaching the rights of deaf people. So, all the countries develop a system that deaf people will win against capitalism with stubborn and resistance.
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3. What have you done in the past to improve your Deaf community?
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My friends with Cochlear Implant do not know Turkish Sign Language(TID) and they were so interested in learning it. I am volunteering to teach TID to them once or twice a week. We gather together and I taught them several things. Now we can communicate each other more comfortably that is very nice.Deaf people had problems with sign language and they would change the rules of the sign language. No one stood against it. So I organized an action to stand and then we protested. I collected my deaf friends in Gezi Park occupation (for more information about Gezi Park: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taksim_Gezi_Park#2013_protests_against_redeveloping_the_site). I strengthened the struggle. I made a speech, stated that we lost our temper for 10 years and told people about the deaf people's problems. I got big applauses and laughing together was great. Then police threw pepper gas to us. But don't worry now we are fine.
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4. What can you tell us about education in your country? Do Deaf go to universities? How much is tuition? Etc.
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Education system in our country is so weak. Deaf people suffer from lessons because they never or rarely understand lessons. There are no translators in schools and no faculties for especially deaf people. However we have one university for deaf people in Eskisehir (Anadolu University, College of Intgrated Disabled People) In deaf schools, there are some teacher never using sign language. So, deaf people can not learn the lessons completely and develop concepts.
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