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Between the dates, 23-24
April 2004, 110 youth participants from 63 provinces have gathered in
Tarsus for the Preparation Meeting to the Local Agenda 21 National Youth
Parliament Summit that is to take place on 19th May in Ankara, the
capital of Turkey where the establishment of the Parliament would be
declared. Within this preparation meeting, the participants formed the
road map of the LA-21 National Youth Parliament.
The summit delegation
system and number of youth representatives have been designated
according to the following procedure:
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City Population* |
Number of Representatives |
Number of Provinces |
TOTAL |
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0 - 200.000 |
2 |
30 |
60 |
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200.000 + |
3 |
35 |
105 |
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Metropolitan Cities |
4 |
13 |
52 |
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İzmir |
5 |
1 |
5 |
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Ankara |
7 |
1 |
7 |
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İstanbul |
9 |
1 |
9 |
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Local Agenda 21 Provinces |
1 |
10 |
10 |
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Grand Total |
248 |
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Population
|
Provinces
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0 - 200.000 |
Amasya, Artvin, Bilecik, Bingöl, Bolu, Burdur,
Çankırı, Erzincan, Gümüşhane, Hakkari, Kars, Kastamonu, Kırklareli,
Kırşehir, Muş, Nevşehir, Niğde, Siirt, Sinop, Tunceli, Uşak,
Bayburt, Karaman, Bartın, Ardahan, Iğdır Yalova, Karabük, Kilis,
Düzce |
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200.000 – 500.000
|
Adıyaman, Afyon, Ağrı, Aydın, Bitlis, Çanakkale,
Çorum, Denizli, Edirne, Elazığ, Giresun, Isparta, Hatay, Kütahya,
Malatya, Mardin, Muğla, Ordu, Rize, Sivas, Tekirdağ, Tokat, Trabzon,
Van, Yozgat, Zonguldak, Aksaray, Kırıkkale, Batman, Şırnak,
Osmaniye, Balıkesir, Manisa, K.Maraş, Şanlıurfa |
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Metropolitan Cities
(Excluding İstanbul-Ankara-İzmir)
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Bursa, Adana, Gaziantep, Konya, İzmit, Antalya,
Diyarbakır, Mersin, Kayseri, Eskişehir, Samsun, Erzurum, Adapazarı
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The representation and
participation
Though the basic
representation has acknowledged to the cities, Local Agenda 21 partner
provinces will own one representation as well.
Gender equality
is a fundamental condition for the delegation system.
Attention will be
paid to the representation of different institutions within provincial
delegations that will be present in Ankara Summit.
The delegations
coming from the youth councils in their cities will represent at least
two different local organizations.
Support from the
provincial governorships will be necessary for the representation of
cities which does have a problem in being represented during the Ankara
Summit.
A written
document is needed from the organization that the youth participant will
represent within the Summit; the document will state that the
participant has the right to be the founding member of the Local Agenda
21 National Youth Parliament.
Youth NGOs,
University Student Councils, Youth Wings of the Political Parties and
the Associations for Turkish Students in foreign countries will be
invited to the Summit and will have an observer status.
In the preparation
meeting, youth participants have also formulated the Draft Youth
Declaration and discussed the future structure of the Local
Agenda 21 National Youth Parliament, which would be discussed in the
Summit, to be presented at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. The
principles of the LA-21 Youth Parliament were identified as follows:
Transparency
Representation
Volunteerism
Individual
Capacity Development
Social
Responsibility
Sustainability
Good
Governance
One Month Long
Preparation Process to the Ankara Summit (April 24 – May 18)
Until the realization of
the Local Agenda 21 National Youth Parliament Summit, the youth leaders
from local youth platforms decided in Tarsus to take urgent actions for
the announcement of this Summit in their local areas through several
diverse campaigns at the local level.
During this one month
process;
Use of local
media has been an effective tool.
Various brochures
and posters have been prepared and disseminated to high schools,
colleges, universities, municipalities, provincial directorates of youth
and sports, NGOs, community-based organizations.
The news of the
Summit has been published on several web-sites, local and national
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