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He Has No Certificate of Residence After 4 Years 26/10/2010

A citizen named A. B., making live hard way in his tent behind the building of Ataşehir Birth Registration Office for 4 years, came away empty handed from the Birth Registration Office where he went to take a certificate of residence to.

A. B. working as a paper-scrap collector have 4 children. He appealed to Ataşehir Birth Registration Office by virtue of coming to the school starting age (6) of his children and demand of the municipality to see a certificate of residence for giving food allowance to the family. Officials of the Birth Registration Office want a bill registered to A.B as a proof that he lives in the place he claimed in accordance with usual process. Official said there is nothing to do when A. B told them he has no bill registered to him.

Law specialist evaluating the issue emphasize that it is suitable to the laws to demand bills or rental contracts from people appealing for certificate of residence. On the other hand, people just like A. B living in tents without electricity, water, gas or any rental contract have no opportunity to prove their living in one place with written documents. This situation blogs many people having a similar position with A. B to benefit from social welfare of municipality and special foundings. Sending their children to school is diffucult for the people living in tents without any certificate of residence

A.B is one of the people whose houses were demolished 5 years ago and started to live in tents and scrappy shacks behind the building of Ataşehir Birth Registration Office. There are almost 20 family in the region trying to live under hard live conditions. Situation of the families having Roma or Abdal origin are not better today thouh they have lived there for 4 years. All of them have same expectation. They are waiting municipality to solve their problems.

Source: Çingeneyiz İstanbul