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Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Services Istanbul Provincial Deputy Director Ali Fuat Karaman, Beşiktaş Municipality Social Service Specialist Mehmet Ali Şahin, Faculty member of the Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Health Sciences Social Services Department Asst. Prof. Taner Artan and Bakırköy Mental Health and Nervous Diseases Training and Research Hospital Social Service Specialist Fatih Kılıçarslan participated as a speaker at the panel.

In the first session of the panel, which was held in the IGU Faculty of Fine Arts Conference Hall and moderated by Lecturer Betül Çolak, topics on "Human Rights and Social Work" and "Children's Rights and Social Work" were discussed.

Mehmet Ali Şahin, Social Services Expert of Beşiktaş Municipality, made statements about the emergence of the concept of human rights and the place of human rights in international legislation, and mentioned the situation of human rights at national level in our country, prevention of violations of rights and works that could be carried out at this point.

In the speech he has made about the situation of children's rights and the violations of rights faced in Turkey, Mr. Ali Fuat Karaman, Deputy Provincial Director of the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Services in Istanbul, gave information about the national level policies implemented in the name of child's neglect and abuse. He also shared the current service models and the legal basis of these models.

In the second session of the panel, topics on the "Rights of the Elderlies and Social Work" and "Patient Rights and Social Service", the process of emergence of the rights of elderlies and the concept of abuse of elderlies, the problems faced by the elderly in their daily life and the suggestions for solutions were talked by Asst. Prof. Taner Artan. He also gave information about the strategies developed at the international and national level for old age rates.

Fatih Kılıçarslan, speaking in the field of Patient Rights and Social Service, the emergence of the social work profession in hospitals, the emergence of the concept of patient rights and the social service practices carried out in the unit of patient rights at the national level in our country, talked on the solutions that can be produced in order to increase the functionality of the service models being implemented.

At the end of the panel, the Director of the School of Health Services Asst. Prof. Dr. A. Yüksel Barut and the Head of Social Services Department Asst. Prof. Dr. Derya Kavgaoğlu presented plaques to all the speakers.