A manual
is usually a book giving instruct on or information. This manual is written to
provide tools for change through information. It does not set out to give
instruction, specifically, but to offer examples of routes, histories and
circumstances
that have occurred in Europe. It identifies frameworks, ideas, challenges,
myths and hope.
The
routes for Turkey are dependent on Turkey’s infrastructure, the attitudes of
Government, existing legal systems and different stakeholders. These in turn
are contextualised within Europe and internationally. But as with elsewhere it
is for disabled people and disabled people’s organisations to lead, act and
work together for the future they want to see. Change does not come because we
wait for it, but because we fight for it. While we have a framework of rights,
those rights must have a political will behind them so that they are
implemented, monitored, shaped and improved by disabled people themselves. It
is up to us to change our lives and convince others to support us in doing so
until we achieve full independent living and equality everywhere for all
disabled people.