Women lead drive for gender equality in Diyarbakir, south-east Turkey Source: The Guardian Kurdish women in Diyarbakir, where an EU grant has enabled more women to gain licences to drive vehicles. Most of the stories that emerge from Baglar, the largest and poorest district in Diyarbakir, in south-east Turkey, have been reports of violent clashes between [...]
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Women of Diyarbakir get behind the wheel
Posted in Kurdish women, Kurdish women's economic rights, women's rights Turkey on January 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Early marriages and illiteracy still common among women in Kurdish town
Posted in Kurdish women, Kurdish women's economic rights on December 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A women’s group has found that nearly one-third of girls surveyed in Diyarbakir were married at the age of 15 or younger and 60 percent are illiterate. Source: Rudaw Thirty-one percent of the 400 women respondents in Cizre, a Kurdish city in southeast of Turkey, were married at the age of 15 or younger while [...]
8th conference on EU, Turkey and the Kurds raises concerns over excessive centralization
Posted in Kurdish women's economic rights on December 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The current form of government does not allow for regional differences and approaches to local problems and gives too much power to a central government that does not have sufficient knowledge and understanding of these problems. Source: Peace in Kurdistan Campaign Peace in Kurdistan has circulated the final resolutions from the 8th international EU Turkey Civic [...]
The politics of development in Turkey’s Kurdish regions
Posted in Kurdish women's economic rights, women's rights Turkey, tagged economic development in Kurdish regions, regional disparities in Kurdish regions on October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Source: Kurdish Info The Kurds do not enjoy great fame and if they are spoken of, it is often done in non-flattering terms like ‘terrorists’ or ‘ separatists’. But there is more to it. The Kurdish region is chronically underdeveloped. The attempts of the Turkish government to invest in the region, without any real participation [...]
Six cities in women friendly project
Posted in Kurdish women's economic rights, women's rights Turkey, tagged Antalya, Antep, Bursa, MALATYA, Mardin, Samsun, Six cities in women friendly project on August 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The project evaluates a city as “women friendly” if every citizen can experience economic, social and political opportunities provided by the city in an equal manner. Source: BIA Antalya (Mediterranean), Bursa (Marmara region), Gaziantep, Malatya, Mardin (south-eastern Anatolia) and Samsun (Black Sea coast) are being added to the list of “women friendly cities” as part of [...]
