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Prostitution in Turkey is legal and regulated. The secularization of Turkish society allowed prostitution to achieve legal status during the early 20th century. State-run brothels , known as "general houses" ( genelevler ), [ 1 ] receive permits from the government.
In the Grand National Assembly of Turkey the percentage of women is 9.1 (17.3 percent is the average in the world). [169] In 1975 the percentage was 10.9 and in 2006 it was 16.3. [170] Only 5.58 percent of mayors are women and in the whole of Turkey there is one governor (among 81) and 14 local governors. [169]
Turkish women continue to be the victims of rape and honour killings, especially in Turkish Kurdistan, where most crimes against women in Turkey take place. [4] Research by scholars [5] [6] and government agencies [7] indicate widespread domestic violence among the people of Turkey, as well as in the Turkish diaspora.
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 ...
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Turkey still looks to its NATO membership for "prestige, gravitas and panache," said Sinan Ciddi, a Turkey specialist at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and a professor at the U.S ...
The 2023 EU report on the country said "Türkiye still lacks a dedicated poverty reduction strategy. Sustained price increases further posed the risk of poverty for the unemployed and wage labourers in precarious jobs. The poverty rate reached 14.4%, up from 13.8% in 2021. The severe-material-deprivation rate reached 28.4% in 2022 (2021: 27.2%).
The American Farm Bureau Federation found that the price of turkeys went down by six percent this year