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Technology in Health Care - Curse or Blessing?
In today’s world, technology plays a major role in almost every economic and social aspect of society as well as in our daily life. A life without it has become unimaginable. Also, the health sector has become highly dependent on it, in terms of medical devices and equipment for diagnosis and therapy, process organisation and data management, for the development of pharmaceuticals etc. While the people working in the medical sector are thrilled by these developments and face the future optimistically, patients on the other hand increasingly voice fear and unease concerning the mechanisation...
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Rising of a Young Activist
As a 17-year-old gender activist from Istanbul, my journey started two years ago when my 7-year-old brother once told me that I was lucky because I just simply could get married and I didn't have to work after. That was probably the moment when I apprehended I was going to be, I had to be the voice of change. That was the moment when I realized the risk of this mindset created by the society. Such a stereotype that even could, and would, affect little child's thought structure. Deeply in my heart, I knew I had to do something, something but didn't know where to start, nor what to do. Since...
First Came the Temple, Then the City
*This article was originally written and published in July 2016 at UNICEF Voices of Youth’s former website. It has since been moved here. In my hometown we often talk about the unappreciated and underrated treasures of our country. I frequently find myself in such conversations, and the one that led me to write this post was about Göbeklitepe, a pre-historic site in Southeastern Turkey. Known to be “the oldest temple of the world”, Göbeklitepe is dated back to Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Period (c. 9600–7300 BC). The peculiarity of the Göbeklitepe site lies in that it contradicts what the studies...
How the Faces of the Medallion Can Change Our Lives
*This article was originally written and published in August 2016 at UNICEF Voices of Youth’s former website. It has since been moved here. Since I figured out how to read and write at the age of 5, I knew what I wanted to do with my life. I have been writing ever since, anything and everything. I write about what I feel, about the stories of the people I meet, about my own experiences, about the troubles of the world… It was only 3 months ago that I came across something called the “writing culture”, something that basically explores and questions the concept of objectivity. It had me...
A sustainability experiment: living with no plastics for two weeks
Strip yourself from all the plastic! You are probably aware of the fact that we are currently facing a very critical and concerning time when it comes to the state of our planet. We all do. The news is spilling with reports on global warming, extreme weather changes, plastic and chemical pollution (pesticides, insecticides, antibodies and hormones), especially since the start of the “Fridays for future” movement. We all know that these things exist, and we are all concerned. We want politicians to make a change. But be totally honest – have you ever asked yourself what role you play? What...
Hope for the world
This is the story of the Olympian God of hope (I invented). He saw how sick and sad and dark the world has become with Coronavirus. So he travels from his cloud to the world and at night, he enters all the rooms of the musicians all over the world. In their dreams he inspires them to spread hope and happiness during lockdown. So the next morning they all go to their windows and balconies and began to play for all the people in lockdown. People find hope again. Doctors and nurses find strengths again and all are happy again. Soon he sits on his cloud, and the world is not all healthy but there...
Activism starts with a story
It all started when… I left my home, in Romania, almost four years ago. It was due to various reasons, but the main one was the wish to escape the broken system that kept getting in the way of my dreams. I did not leave for economic reasons or for a western version of the American dream, but for the lack of perspective and the feeling of being powerless every time I wanted to fight for something I believed in. I can assure you no one leaves their home if everything is alright. I would not have left either if things were different. But sadly, they were far away from that. I was desperately...
We must take precautions for the climate crisis
There's a simple way to avoid the problems that are happening in our world - reducing the release of activated carbon. This pollution is damaging both human health and our planet. Any kind of poison thrown into nature seeps into human Biosystems in the same way. And human beings are desperate to use all modern medicine to remove this poison from the ecosystem. But if we had made this effort all along to stop the climate crisis, we wouldn't be so helpless against nature today. We must never forget: from the smallest micro to the largest macro system, we are all parts of a whole. The destruction...
Understanding and Addressing the Gender Inequality in the Turkish Educational System
There are a number of areas that Turkey should address in order to progress in terms of education, with the number one issue would be gender inequality, as its short- and long-term effects on education are quite prevalent. Unfortunately, gender inequality affects lives of women in many regions of the country, and the effects are seen starting at an early age. For example, in international standardized tests, we see a trend in which boys score higher than the girls. Although this might hold true for many nations, for Turkey, the difference between the scores of boys and girls is higher than the...
Take them Out
The social fabric of a society blossoms more when we tie the knots of friendships, tenderness, and awareness tight, care for those in our close eyesight, fighting emotional battles. We all know someone, or know someone who knows someone, facing the dilemma of depressions, fighting the lone battles, emitting the depression vibes. We can feel it or, rather see it in their social media sharing. We are occupied in lives and think what we go through is final we do not see carefully what our social circle is sharing. KEEP A CLOSE LOOK, are they sharing some posts, statuses which have sad reactions...
World Children's Day Challenge 2020 - The little change
We should all help to make the world a better place, to make children in a better place. My drawing shows that we can have a healthier and happier world without discrimination as we help our planet to grow.
Why it’s never too late to care
Nature to be a place of relaxation, peace and carelessness, now being filled with dreads, stress and those, we should now be caring for best. The heat you feel on your skin, will be as deadly as the fire, the monkey is in. Water flowing and melting, slowly, it’s peacefulness to be a feeling, to the day it crashes down and covers everyone, in it’s deadly crown. Although you might just think ”it’s too late” the crisis is like ink, permanent, but with hard work able to be changed one date. Let this date be now, don’t hesitate, don’t get mad, simply vow, take action and agitate, it’s never too...
How Do You Treat Yourself?
Do that three things to be respected, -Treat yourself like you deserved -Treat others gentle -Give all of your love to people you care Firstly, you might be hurted by world, by someone or by your parents. But isn't it enough? You are worth everything. This Earth is spinning just for you to live. We are nothing compares to universe. But it is still a miracle that you alive. This sunsets and sunrises meant for you. When you did deserve those beauties, why you allow people to treat you like they wanted? No one can hurt you like they want or they can't define you. Treat people as gentle as you can...
I believe I am beautiful, so I am
If you’re like me, you grew up with a low self-esteem, saw traditionally beautiful models all over social media, and perhaps even got bullied for your looks. And even if you were fortunate enough to not have had to experience this, stay here and join me on our journey of self-love! Let’s heal from these past experiences and thinking patterns and start a new lovely chapter! Why you need to be independent Let’s take a new step toward confidence and independence. And if I’m talking about independence, I am referring to your self-esteem and mental well-being not depending on someone else telling...