I had my thymoma operation 5 weeks ago. Stitches were removed but my wounds have not healed yet. I could not check my account at this platform.
There is a chance that my stiff person syndrome symptoms might go away. The waiting period is up to 6 months
We will see.
Now I am resting at home.

Barış akademisyeni Cavidan Soykan görevine iade edildi 'Bu Suça Ortak Olmayacağız' bildirisine imza attığı için Ankara Üniversitesi'deki görevinden ihraç edilen barış akademisyeni Cavidan Soykan görevine iade edildi.

Thanks to Birgün Newspaper for my back-to-work news! I won my legal battle at the Upper Administrative Court against Ankara University and I am again lecturer in human rights at the Faculty of Political Science. I will also teach ableism in my classes.
www.birgun.net/haber/baris-...

+The surgeon I saw yesterday was a graduate of Ankara University too. He knew my undergraduate lecturers from the 1980s. I have learned so much about my condition that he told me they will send me back to Ankara with a honorary medical degree 🤓

I won my legal battle against my dismissal decision from my post at Ankara University Faculty of Political Science. In 2026 I will be hopefully back in Ankara, teaching human rights theory and law after 9 years✌🏽
The next chapter in life is about to begin for me if an operation comes after that 🙏🏽

💞💞🙏🏻

I am seeing a thoracic surgeon next Tuesday for a possible operation. 2026 might be the year I will learn how to walk again ✌🏽🙏🏼 after 9 years of pain, spasms and muscle contractions… #stiffpersonsyndrome

After I have seen the latest developments about the other un-popular platform and being not a big fan of AI, I will only be posting on here.
New year, new beginnings!
Docs found a mass in my thymus gland.
Results are due tomorrow. Hope it can be fixable and might be the cause of my SPS symptoms?!?

“It Became Life, It Became Survival” - FIFDH and OMCT Spotlight… Born in Damascus, Syria, Lina is a filmmaker, journalist, and human rights defender, who in 2011 decided to pick up her camera and start filming, without…

My dear friend Lina’s documentary was screened at International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights at Geneva.She was detained 3 times but never gave up!
She stayed with me in Ankara but went back to filming in Syria. The last time we met was 8 years ago in Berlin. Miss you; proud of you sis 🫂

Hoşgelmişsin. Toplu taşınma bekliyorum hala…

3. @rarediseasesint.bsky.social

We are dying but in small numbers...That's why no one cares. Death, mourning and sorrow

2/2 #rarediseaseday2025
Four weeks ago she shared a post from the ICU. She said “being here is not easy because you are not accompanied by your loved ones -my beloved mother and my faithful husband/protector-

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1/2 In our tiny little #SPS community we lost three friends since last Christmas. I used to know one of them, Ândrea from Brazil. The last time we were in touch she was very eager to do something this year on this special day. So…I dedicate this piece to her.

2. Soykan…agreed that the fall of the Assad regime offers the “possibility of a new start” for Syrians, but strikes a note of caution.
“It is possible only if their country, which has become a global geopolitical playground, is returned to their will,” Soykan said.
#syria #Syrians

Syrians in Turkey Want to Go Home – But How? On the first day of Eid last year – when it is traditional to visit the graves of loved ones - relatives were searching for their loved ones’ resting places at a cemetery for victims of the 2023 earth...

1. Stories of Syrian refugees living in Antakya -still after the devastating 2023 earthquakes- and my comments on the fall of the Assad regime and what should be expected in the near future #syria #syrians #turkishpolitics #MiddleEast #refugees #turkey

4. Bu ülke bu yüzden bu kadar battı zaten. Şiddeti örtbas edenler görmezden gelenler ve ona sırtına bana sıra gelmez diye dönenler yüzünden.

3. Bağırıp çağırıp tehdit savunanlar kimi zaman belgesellerde asbest uzmanı, haftada en az 1 kez 1 bir konferansta ülke kurtarıcısı veya Baroda avukatlara hak hukuk dersi veriyor.

2. Hasta insana sözel şiddeti normal bulanlar, sosyal izolasyon ile dışlayanlar, desteksiz tek bırakanlar, sırf yalakalık için işsiz bırakanlar, şikayetlerini hasır altı edenler, bu yaptığınızın adı ŞİDDET!

1. Noelden beri #stiffpersonsyndrome #katıinsansendromu nadir tanımdan internetten dertleştiğim 2 kadın öldü! Bana hasta hasta zorbalık edenler, tüm ahlarım üzerinize! Bu zorbalıklara barış akademisyenleri rezil olmasın diye susanlar sizin de! Şikayetime bakmayanlar sizin de @egitimsen.bsky.social +

I have another new account for longer pieces. I will write there fortnightly on #disability #raredisease #chronicpain #chronicillness #womensrights #migrationpolicy #turkishpolitics

open.substack.com/pub/cavidans...

I am blocked by the Izmir Mayor and my district Narlidere Mayor due to my social media posts on accessibility and disability rights. They are not from the Justice and Development Party, Rebublicans…
There is no freedom of expression for us, disabled people.
#rarediseasemonth #nadirhastalıklarayı

Our article with Elif Ceylan Özsoy has just been published at Feminists@law

'We Are Not Leaving the Istanbul Convention': Disappearance of Istanbul Convention from Turkiye and presence of unlikely feminist legal spaces in international law-making’
Open Access 👇🏼

journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/fe...

Very important thread on #Syria
Hope Turkish lawyers will see and read this👇🏼 There is a special point underlined regarding Turkey and its obligations under international human rights law.

++This event is organized by the Izmir Economy University Department of Sociology
Special thanks to Prof Deniz Yükseker as the head of the department for her interest in disability justice and giving me space…

This is a poster about Cavidan’s talk on ableism at Izmir Economy University, 16 December 2024 -14:00 next Monday with her most recent photo. She is wearing a red top and black framed glasses.

Haftaya #insanhakları haftası bitmeden #saglamcilik ve #engellihaklari üzerine konuşuyor olacağım. İzmir’de olanları bekleriz.
I will be graduating from CREA DSROI soon. I wanted to share what I have learnt so far…
#disabilityrights #humanrights #ableism

Understanding the rebellion in Syria Tempest asks Swiss-Syrian socialist Joseph Daher about the process that led to the fall of Bashar al-Assad's rule.

What’s happening/has happened in Syria in a such short period of time. #fallofassad
It is a long read but definitely worth it👇🏼

tempestmag.org/2024/12/unde...

I am not only a migration scholar anymore. I became disabled 6 years ago. I work on sociology of law, gender, class, ableism and racism and at the intersection of all of these…

Boş yapma sağlamcı Tüm bunlar olurken, bir grup engelli, kendi ruh sağlığı için 3 Aralık günü sosyal medyaya hiç bakmama kararı üzerinde düşünüyor. Çünkü bu gün, ironik bir biçimde hak temellilikten alabildiğine uzak bi...

Bugün için yazılmış okuduğum en iyi yazı 💃🏻👨🏻‍🦼‍➡️👩🏻‍🦯👩🏻‍🦽‍➡️💯
#saglamcilik #ableism #disabilityjustice #3December #3Aralık

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Daha önce nadir hastalıklar için birlikte çalıştığım Merve ve İzmir’den avukat arkadaş Ali Samsum ile kanser hastalarının tedavi masrafları konusunda TVde sıkça gördüğümüz Dr Halis Yerlikaya birarada.
Kaçırmayın
#sağlıkhakkı #tedaviyeerişimhakkı #nadirhastalıklar #sağlıksistemi #piyasalaşma

This week I am every other day at my regular place, the Uni hospital where I got my diagnosis of #stiffpersonsyndrome
Tomorrow is my #iviginfusionday at the MS out patient clinic. Then I might be knocked down for a few days, just as usual… #rarediase #disabilityjustice

Femicides in 2023: Global estimates of intimate partner/family member femicides Concerted, urgent action is needed to improve the knowledge base and strengthen responses to gender-related killings (femicides/feminicides) and other forms of gender-based violence against women and ...

BM Kadın Birimi Yeni Raporu

📌2023’te hergün yaklaşık 140 kadın aile bireyleri tarafından öldürülmüş!

📌51K’dan fazla kadın önlenebilir kadın cinayeti ile daha önceden şikayet ettiği bir aile bireyi tarafından öldürülmüş.

#25Kasım #25November

www.unwomen.org/en/digital-l...