The Council of Europe Project on “Protection of Rights of Refugees and Migrants in Turkey” organised a second kick-off meeting to launch HELP/UNHCR online course “Asylum and the European Convention on Human Rights” in Ankara, Turkey, on 21 September 2018.
The online course will be implemented for a group of 119 participants, composed mainly of experts and lawyers of the Directorate General for Migration Management (DGMM) from central and provincial units, within the Project funded by the Human Rights Trust Fund and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark and implemented by the Council of Europe using the Council of Europe’s Programme on Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP). The implementation of the course will be completed in two-month time.
The objective of the course is to strengthen the capacity of the staff of DGMM to develop a better understanding of the rights attributed to the asylum seekers and foreigners in general. Targeting the implementation of the online course for around 300 DGMM staff in total, the Project had organised the first kick-off meeting in 6 July 2018.
The event started with opening speeches from with the welcoming speeches from Michael Ingledow, Head of Ankara Programme Office-Council of Europe and Selami Yazici, Head of Migration Policies and Projects Department, Ministry of Interior Directorate General of Migration Management. During the event, apart from the presentation of HELP, its methodology and HELP online courses by Seran Karatari Köstü, judge and senior project officer of HELP Unit, Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law (DGI), Council of Europe, participants also benefited from the presentation on refugee and migrant protection under the European Convention on Human Rights by Dr Danai Angeli, instructor at the department of International relations of Bilkent University, lawyer at Athens Bar Association and a member of the HELP working group on “Refugee and Migrant Children” online course.
During the kick-off meeting, the participants are provided with practical information related to implementation of the online course and to maintain effective interaction with their tutors. The dedicated pages to the course with national legal adaptation were introduced to the participants by Gamze Gül Çakir Kiliç, lawyer, Ministry of Interior Directorate General of Migration Management, HELP national tutor. The participants’ tasks during the implementation process were clarified.
The HELP/UNHCR online course on “Asylum and the European Convention on Human Rights” is available in English and in Turkish in the HELP e-learning online platform to any user – upon the creation of an account on the platform.
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