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Mobilizing Religious Leaders to Combat Violence against Women in Turkey

By Nükhet Kardam Posted on August 14, 2014 Posted in Education, FEATURE ARTICLES, MIIS Update, The World 1 Comment Tagged with Education, gender equality, human rights, Islam, Politics, Turkey, Violence Against Women, women's empowerment

by Meltem Ağduk and Nükhet Kardam – Turkey – Violence against Women (VAW) is a violation of human rights rooted in inequality between women and men. Resistance to combating VAW in many Muslim majority countries is ingrained in both the …

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The “democratic evolution” of the Kurdish Question:Turkish and Kurdish Mothers Campaign for Peace

By emel basturk akca Posted on November 16, 2009 Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics No Comments Tagged with activism, Democracy, Ethnicity, human rights, Kurds, Motherhood, Politics, Self-Determination, Turkey, War & Conflict

by Dr. Emel Baştürk Akca – Turkey – “We mothers, whose hearts are burning, have come together so that there will be no more pain. We do not want our children to die.” These words belong to Nurten Ekinci, a …

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Mobilizing Religious Leaders to Combat Violence against Women in Turkey

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