From 24-25 September, journalists from Samsun, Kars, Trabzon, Artvin, Ordu, Rize, Giresun, Tokat, Amasya, Sinop, Kastamonu, Çorum, Zonguldak, Karabük and Bartın will attend the Womens Rights and Womens Journalism Training program organized by the BİA²

Womens organizations will explain Law 4320, The Family Protection Law, to women who suffer domestic violence. The reason for the six-week-long campaign is that the law is not sufficiently well-understood by women and by those who administer the law.

According to the Office of Religious Affairs, the survival of the family depends on women receiving religious education. The office appointed 196 women preachers to Turkish provinces under a project that was launched a year ago.

People with the HIV virus can now live up to 20-30 years thanks to new medication, said Professor Doctor Simsek. People with this virus need constant medication. Otherwise, their standard of living can become very low.

The Istanbul Network of World March for Women drew attention to the rise of an anti-Kurdish and militarist climate in Turkey. According to the women, operations are mostly hurting civilians, and especially women.

RTUK head Fatih Karaca said women dont participate in decision-making mechanisms in the media sector. He added that todays womens programs would be eliminated if there were more women in senior positions in the media.

Minister Cubukcu said womens transition from being unpaid laborers to paid laborers was a positive development. However, she added that low status and wages and lack of social security minimize womens contribution to the family budget.

According to a research by the UNFPA media is acting irresponsibly in its coverage of honor crimes and only paying attention to ratings. KA-MER said that 84 percent of the women who have the Emergency Help Line is economically dependant.

CEDAW calls Turkish state encourage more active women participation in politics as well as new regulations in discriminatory laws. Regional disparities in regard to education and health services should also be removed.

Who fail to take the necessary legal and administrative measures, are responsible for the deaths of women in honor killings, protest the IHD. Four women were killed by male relatives in Bursa, Adana, Gaziantep and Sanliurfa in the same day, for honor.

Women unionists, after a recent tape case, urge the government introduce protective measures to safegurad women workers from sexual harassment. Nurse N.T. was raped on the way home after she left the night shift in an Istanbul hospital.

Although the EU is more advanced than Turkey in terms of equality between sexes, there still exists the dominance of men in EUs institutions and the political, economic, social and cultural lives of EU members. A difficult mission awaits Turkeys womens

The disabled women congress is a first step toward helping women fight against not only problems arising from being disabled, but also those from being a woman. But first, disabled women have to become acquainted with the womens movement and ...

Women lawyers said MTA discriminated against women by employing 75 men and only five women. They called on women to spend effort to defend their rights and promised to support the Chamber of Geology Engineers in any legal procedure.

Actress Genç of Theatre Amargi had a case brought against her for swearing at official on duty based on her lines in the play Spilled Unwritten She has stated that this kind of censorship applications are hindering the artistic creation process.

An Istanbul court rejected a request by the Istanbul Bar, womens organizations, and women, to take part in the trial about Guldunya Torens murder by family members. The women, who left the courtroom, are preparing to object to the decision.

During the international symposium titled, Women in Turkey and the EU: Toward a Joint Understanding organized by Ka-Der, participants discussed womens problems arising from being a woman, and looked for ways to improve solidarity among women.

When the opposition of the Republican Peoples Party (CHP) was also added to the reactions raised from the domestic and foreign public opinion, AKP renounced from its initiative to make the adultery a crime.

Women from Diyarbakir, Batman, Van, Mardin, Gaziantep and Mersin, argue that making adultery a crime would legitimize honor crimes. They draw attention to how widespread polygamy is, and say: Everybody will become a guard of virtue of each other.

The TCK Womens Platform criticized AKPs reported efforts to abolish an article in the TCK draft that states adultery is not a crime: Turkey must ensure equality between men and women to be able to become an EU member.