Saturday, May 30, 2015

The Trajectory of Roma in Turkey


*The first Roma associations was found in 1990s.

*In 2000s, associations, email groups, web pages and online radios over which Roma youth and local community leaders communicated were established.

*In 2010, March 14; thousands of Roma gathered in İstanbul in a meeting to which government representatives also participated.

*Roma associations came to unite under federations and confederations.

*For the elections 2015, 3 parties which have a group in the parliament presented Roma candidates.