Women in Turkey
Can Turkey create a new economic narrative without half the population?
Turkey needs to create a new economic narrative. Several problems, old and new, have been squeezing the basics of the country's economy of late. In addition to escalating security concerns, problems in the judicial system and the media climate, as well as economic woes in Turkey's oil-exporting markets, have worsened the situation.
Gender inequality is a men's problem
Despite the fact that it is generally now romanticized into just another commercial day like Mother's Day or Valentine's Day, March 8 "Women's Day" was originally called "International Working Women's Day." The U.N. and other international organizations for gender equality, as well as national institutions across the world, now use the day to increase awareness of the subject.
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Majority of Turkish women not looking for employment, research reveals
A study focusing on gender roles and the status of women in Turkish society has revealed that a majority of Turkish women have never held a job and are not looking for employment, while also exposing public perceptions on women's employment, representation and sexuality.
Priceless feminist archive goes digital
Turkey's only women's library celebrates its 25th anniversary with ambitious plans to expand and digitize It is a quiet afternoon in Turkey's only women's library and Professor Fatmagül Berktay, a renowned feminist academic and activist, is, as usual, hunched over a pile of books.
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CHP proposes increased penalties in sexual assault cases
Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy Aytu? At?c? has submitted a law proposal to parliament demanding an increase in the penalties for convicts who commit crimes against women.
The law proposal, dubbed the "Özgecan Law" after murdered 19-year-old university student Özgecan Aslan, called on parliament to increase the penalties in sexual assault cases.
Was she wearing a mini skirt?
Enough, this is enough. At this point, words fail. But this barbarity, this perversion, does not seem to fail. There is a new femicide every day; there is a new rape every day.
It was only last weekend when a 19-year-old girl was raped near Ba?dat Street, a prestigious street on the Anatolian side of Istanbul and the street by which she lived.
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Turkish court jails three to life for college girl's brutal murder
Three men have been sentenced to aggravated life in prison over the brutal murder of 20-year-old Özgecan Aslan in southern Turkey, in a ruling that delighted her family, friends, attorneys, and women's rights activists.
Education, rights of girls underlined at Istanbul conference
The education and rights of girls were discussed at a conference in Istanbul titled "Empowered Girls, Strong Tomorrows," participated in by the Ayd?n Do?an Foundation and representatives from the United Nations.
The conference was held to mark the U.N.'s International Day of the Girl Child, which aims to promote girls' rights and the unique challenges girls face around the world.
Life sentence requested for three suspects in Özgecan murder
A Turkish prosecutor in the southern province of Mersin demanded life imprisonment for three suspects on Sept. 9 over the brutal killing of 21-year-old-student Özgecan Arslan, whose death in February caused massive outrage around the country.
Women in Turkey work for self-confidence
A new report by the Bahçe?ehir University Center for Economic and Social Research (BETAM) has revealed Turkish women believe work assures their self-confidence and financial freedom, contrary to the prejudice they work only as a financial obligation.
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