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Dwindling Work Force: Professional Women with Headscarves

Dwindling Work Force: Professional Women with Headscarves

Women wearing a headscarf are 'invisible' in the companies they work. This is one of the findings of a study into working life of professional women wearing headscarves. The research dealt with the headscarf ban at universities and discrimination in professional life.

25 June 2010 Berivan Tapan

MoE Lectures Pupils on Discrimination

1st through 8th graders received a one-week course to raise awareness and to avoid discrimiantion. Minister of Education Çubukçu gave the first lecture. "Our traditions lead the way to a peaceful and harmonious society" she said.

25 September 2009

Academics Warn of Hate Speech in Media

Academics Warn of Hate Speech in Media

A conference organised by the Social Change Association discussed the prevalence of hate discourses in the national media.

22 May 2009 Erol Önderoğlu

Nothing to Celebrate in Disability Awareness Week

Dısabılıty awareness week

Nothing to Celebrate in Disability Awareness Week

Disabled representative Küçükarslan says that a change in health report regulations mean fewer people are counted as disabled.

12 May 2009 Emine Özcan

AKP Politician Unconcerned with Constitutional Equality for Gays

In the following article, a member of the publishing team of KAOS LG takes issue with an AKP MP's discriminatory attitude towards homosexuals and transsexuals as expressed on television.

26 February 2009 Umut Güner

Romany People Hide Their Identities Because Of The Prejudices

The vice president of the Romani People Culture and Solidarity Association of Didim district on the Aegean coast says the Romany prefer not to reveal their cultural and ethnic identity because of the negative prejudices and therefore their association has become inactive.

23 December 2008 Buket Erbaş

Turkish Intellectuals In Defense of Kurdish Politician

Ahmet Türk under investigation

Turkish Intellectuals In Defense of Kurdish Politician

Academics, artists and rights activists join support for pro-Kurdish DTP MP Türk, whose parliamentary immunity is threatened. International support comes from reputed American intellectual Noam Chomsky and PEN.

10 January 2008 Tolga Korkut

Stop Discrimination say Transsexuals

The recent murder of transsexual Ece in Bursa has again highlighted the plight of transvestites and transsexuals in Turkey. Deprived of education and work, they are forced into prostitution.

24 August 2007 Ayça Örer

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