marriage; many Turkish men in rural sectors of the population carry on this religiously-permitted tradition, generally marrying one wife legally or at least through formal religious ceremonies, and
lamic country In reality, Turkish legislation reflects conventional gender ideology where gender roles are constructed around “male breadwinner-female homemaker” roles (Dun-can, 1996, p 419) The utmost duty for Turkish women is to be good wives and mothers, basi-cally because “the woman” is viewed as the
on these figures, several estimates were reported by Turkish media outlets that the number of detained women range from 16,000 to 20,000 There were no figures on how many of these detainees had been formally arrested Considering that Turkish prisons have a capacity of 180,176,11 the overcrowded jails present
Polygamy in which a man is allowed and expected to have multiple wives contrasts with monogamy in which a man can only have multiple women by breaking the rules Instead of thinking that the Chinese polygamist had the world of women at his will, 918 Keith McMahon
Turkey has ratified both the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of The Turkish Penal Code does not include any specific sanctions against child marriages do not exist Religious marriages have no legal official force, and
ship of equals i e are family laws or if codified laws do not suffi- For this Turkey country table, we would also like to thank Cassandra Umut Uras, “ Turkey court ruling on religious marriages spurs uproar”, Al Jazeera, 31 May 2015,