{"id":281433,"date":"2026-01-13T09:06:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=281433"},"modified":"2026-01-13T09:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:08:18","slug":"age-discrimination-ageism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/age-discrimination-ageism\/","title":{"rendered":"Ageism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-281434\" src=\"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/gulsahyas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/gulsahyas.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/gulsahyas-18x10.jpg 18w, https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/gulsahyas-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/gulsahyas-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/gulsahyas-1068x601.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/>Almost every morning in this country we wake up to news of discrimination.<br \/>\nSometimes people are targeted for their language, sometimes for their identity, sometimes for their faith, sometimes for their poverty.<br \/>\nSometimes by gender.<br \/>\nSometimes just because it exists.<br \/>\nBut there is a discrimination that often goes unnoticed.<br \/>\nQuiet.<br \/>\nInvisible.<br \/>\nThat's why it's more dangerous.<br \/>\nAge discrimination.<br \/>\nAge discrimination is discrimination against any individual or group because of their age.<br \/>\nThat is, the devaluation of a person solely because of their age.<br \/>\nInterruption.<br \/>\nBeing pushed out of decisions.<br \/>\nIt is a gradual erasure from public life.<br \/>\nAgeism is mostly used to describe prejudices and discriminatory practices against older people. However, it also applies to discriminatory practices against young people and children.<br \/>\nWhen it is directed at children and young people, it comes across as contempt:<br \/>\n\u201cHe won't understand.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cInexperienced.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThere's time.\u201d<br \/>\nWhen it's directed at the elderly, it's called a job:<br \/>\nIgnoring<br \/>\nAge discrimination;<br \/>\nRacism is what it is.<br \/>\nSexism is one thing.<br \/>\nDiscrimination on religious or sectarian grounds is what it is.<br \/>\nSo it feeds from the same place:<br \/>\nPrejudice.<br \/>\nStereotype.<br \/>\nStructural exclusion.<br \/>\nCultural codes.<br \/>\n\u201cIt's one of those \u201dafter this age\" places.<br \/>\nAcceptances passed down as tradition, as habit.<br \/>\nAnd of course power relations.<br \/>\nFrom the spheres of power that decide who will speak and who will remain silent.<br \/>\nThe only difference is this:<br \/>\nAge discrimination is often not even seen as discrimination.<br \/>\nIt is considered normal.<br \/>\nIt is often even presented as well-intentioned.<br \/>\nIt appears everywhere in everyday life.<br \/>\nIn its crudest form, there is direct age discrimination.<br \/>\nIt is said openly:<br \/>\n\u201cYou're too old for this.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cYou're too young for this.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cIt's still early.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cIt's too late.\u201d<br \/>\nAge is put before us as a criterion of qualification.<br \/>\nA door never opens for some,<br \/>\nfor some, it's already closed.<br \/>\nThe second form is indirect age discrimination.<br \/>\nIt is more insidious.<br \/>\nThere seems to be a rule, but the rule automatically excludes certain age groups, especially the elderly.<br \/>\nTime limitations.<br \/>\nDesigning services only for certain ages.<br \/>\nDigital application requirements.<br \/>\nNobody says \u201cyou can't come in\u201d.<br \/>\nBut the system won't let them in anyway.<br \/>\nThe third is institutional age discrimination.<br \/>\nThis is the work of systems, not individuals.<br \/>\nTransportation policies.<br \/>\nSocial services.<br \/>\nEmployment arrangements.<br \/>\nAnd so the elderly are gradually erased from public life.<br \/>\n\u201cDon't take the bus at this hour.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThis area is not for you.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cDon't get tired.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cDon't bother.\u201d<br \/>\nIt is presented as good intentions.<br \/>\nHowever, good intentions do not eliminate discrimination.<br \/>\nIt just makes it invisible.<br \/>\nIt is precisely at this point that we need to see this:<br \/>\nThe elderly already live in difficult conditions in this country.<br \/>\nThey live on low pensions.<br \/>\nFor most, social security is extremely limited.<br \/>\nPoverty deepens with old age.<br \/>\nAnd this poverty is not only material.<br \/>\nIt disrupts nutrition.<br \/>\nIt makes access to treatment difficult.<br \/>\nIt interferes with medication use.<br \/>\nIt aggravates many health problems.<br \/>\nSo aging is not just a biological process;<br \/>\nit is also a multi-layered vulnerability related to economic, social and health.<br \/>\nAge discrimination overlays this very vulnerability.<br \/>\nDiscrimination against the elderly has recently become more visible, especially in discussions on transportation.<br \/>\nFree or discounted transportation is no longer a right.<br \/>\nIt was presented as a blessing.<br \/>\nThen he was targeted.<br \/>\nSuddenly the elderly became a \u201cburden\u201d.<br \/>\nResponsible for the crowd.<br \/>\nThe cause of traffic.<br \/>\nThe scapegoat of the crisis.<br \/>\nLet's ask the question openly:<br \/>\nIs transportation really the problem?<br \/>\nOr is it a question of who has the right to occupy how much space on the street, in the city, in public space?<br \/>\nThis is where ageism meets the capitalist order.<br \/>\nBecause the capitalist order sees the human being not as a subject but as an object of performance.<br \/>\nIf dynamic.<br \/>\nProductive.<br \/>\nCompetitive.<br \/>\nIf he\/she does not object.<br \/>\nMaintenance free.<br \/>\nIf it is fast.<br \/>\nWhat slows down becomes redundancy.<br \/>\nIt is considered a stationary load.<br \/>\nThe listener is pushed out of the system.<br \/>\n\u201cEven \u201dactive ageing\" is often imposed as an obligation, not a right.<br \/>\nYou can get old.<br \/>\nBut you can't be old.<br \/>\nBut aging is not a defect.<br \/>\nIt is not a failure at all.<br \/>\nIt is the common destiny of all of us.<br \/>\nWhat is young today will be old tomorrow.<br \/>\nAge discrimination therefore does not only concern today's elderly.<br \/>\nIt also targets our future selves.<br \/>\nThis is how the justice of a society is measured.<br \/>\nNot by the opportunities it offers to the powerful.<br \/>\nHow he treats the one who slows down.<br \/>\nBy what it does to the fragile.<br \/>\nThe elderly are not the burden of this society.<br \/>\nIt is the memory of this country.<br \/>\nThey are the witnesses of these cities.<br \/>\nThey are the ones who have paid the price for this order.<br \/>\nBut what do we do?<br \/>\nWe don't want crowds.<br \/>\nWe don't want their voices.<br \/>\nWe don't want them to be slow.<br \/>\nWe don't even want them to exist.<br \/>\nBut a society is measured by how it treats its people.<br \/>\nHow much it makes invisible.<br \/>\nBy how much it silences.<br \/>\nHow soon he kicked her out of his life.<br \/>\nBecause discrimination knows no borders.<br \/>\nWhat is done to the elderly today is done to someone else tomorrow.<br \/>\nSo this is not an \u201cold people's issue\u201d.<br \/>\nIt is a matter for all of us.<br \/>\nThe question is this:<br \/>\nIs coming of age still a right in this country,<br \/>\nor is it a crime punished in silence?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is coming of age still a right in this country, or is it a silently punished 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