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Daily Habertürk reported on 9 January 2018, that only three state universities in Turkey have women rectors, despite women making up 43.58 percent of all academics in the country. According to education specialist Alaaddin Dinçer, the absence of women among universities' boards of directors is the result of a "consciously made decision."
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic initiated a series of reforms to modernize the country, including civil and political equality for women for the first time. On 17 February 1926, Turkey adopted a new civil code by which the rights of Turkish women and men were declared equal except in suffrage. [1]
In 2018, 440 women were killed by male violence in Turkey and women were exposed to violence and oppression in all areas of life, and 20 female artists told the stories of women who were subjected to abuse and oppression in the exhibition "Let Women Live", organized in collaboration with the We Will Stop Femicide Platform in Istanbul. [68]
The recognition of women's right to choose and be elected refers to the adoption of laws necessary for women to gain political rights in Turkey in the 1930s. The achievement of women's right to choose and be elected in political life is one of the Atatürk's reforms that took place in social life. With a series of laws enacted since 1930, women ...
Turkey's first election government was established on 28 August 2015. [141] There were two female ministers in the government, which served for approximately 3 months. The first of these was Ayşen Gürcan, who took part in the cabinet as the Minister of Family and Social Services. [142] [143] Gürcan also became Turkey's first headscarved ...
Domestic violence in Turkey is an ongoing and increasing problem in the country. [1] [2] In 2013 a Hurriyet Daily News poll found that 34% of Turkish men think violence against women is occasionally necessary, and 28% say that violence can be used against women. According to data collected by We Will Stop Femicide Platform (KCDP) in Turkey, the ...
An Indonesian woman who felt duped into joining the Islamic State’s ”caliphate“ in Syria tells TIME of the challenges of returning home—and what it means to be granted a second chance.
[25] Turkey is a predominantly Muslim and Patriarchal Society; In Turkey, they look towards the Islamic faith and their interpretation of said faith to influence the practices of society. After the ban was lifted decades after its initiation, it became difficult for women, both with or without a headscarf, to receive an education.