{"id":116,"date":"2025-10-19T15:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T14:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euryo.org\/fyir\/?page_id=116"},"modified":"2025-10-20T15:46:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:46:05","slug":"turkey-social-inclusion-and-participation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euryo.org\/fyir\/deliverables\/national-workshops\/turkey-social-inclusion-and-participation\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey (Social Inclusion and participation)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\nThe FYI-R workshop at Eski\u015fehir Osmangazi University (ESOG\u00dc), particularly involving youth from the Faculty of Agriculture, revealed a complex and deeply reflective vision of rural life shaped by social inclusion, participation, and systemic equity.<br><br>Young people expressed a strong emotional connection to nature, safety, and community, but also voiced concerns about isolation, rigid village mentalities, and limited social networks. Their desire to remain in rural areas hinges on the availability of vibrant social spaces, cultural activities, and opportunities for meaningful interaction and personal development.<br><br>Participants emphasised that inclusion must go beyond physical presence \u2014 it requires access to quality education, healthcare, transportation, and cultural resources. Without these, rural youth feel excluded from broader societal progress and are often compelled to migrate. They called for community-oriented infrastructure, such as youth centres, libraries, and gathering spaces, to foster participation and reduce social fragmentation.\n\nDespite challenges, young people remain hopeful.<br><br>They envision a future where rural areas are socially dynamic, intergenerational, and technologically connected. They proposed initiatives like community-led cooperatives, inclusive education tailored to local strengths, and policies that promote urban-rural equality.<br><br>Their concept of justice includes fair recognition of labour, equal access to services, and the freedom to choose where and how to live.<br><br>However, they also warned that without genuine youth participation in decision-making, development efforts risk being disconnected and ineffective. Structural barriers \u2014 such as ageing populations, limited amenities, and dominance of external capital \u2014 undermine agency and deepen exclusion.<br><br>To reverse this, youth need not only resources but real influence.\n\nUltimately, the workshop underscored that social inclusion in rural areas depends on empowering young people as active agents of change. Their voices, visions, and lived experiences must shape the future of rural development \u2014 making it not just sustainable, but socially just and participatory.\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":101,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-116","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euryo.org\/fyir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euryo.org\/fyir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euryo.org\/fyir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euryo.org\/fyir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euryo.org\/fyir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euryo.org\/fyir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/euryo.org\/fyir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116\/revisions\/308"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euryo.org\/fyir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euryo.org\/fyir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}