According to the Oxford English Dictionary, feminism is defined as the belief and aim that women should have the same rights and opportunities as men. Having recently entered a new decade of the 21st Century, it is upsetting to witness the crucial relevancy of feminism.
Read More“A society that leaves the woman behind is doomed to be left behind.” said Atatürk. He was the founding father of the Turkish Republic and created a democratic nation nearly 100 years ago. Today, participants from Turkey are able to submit essays on a global issue as “Woman Empowerment” with great awareness thanks to him.
Read More“My name is Asiye. And this is my story:
My family and I lived in Ketenli, a village of Rize, a rural area in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey. Ketenli is a village with a low literacy rate and where literacy is considered unfamiliar trait for a person. I started my life with a handicap: My father had a verbal agreement to betrothal with the richest man of the village.”
Read MoreJon Ronson, who is now a celebrated writer, of the best-seller book So You have Been Publically Shamed, had been shamed into thinking that his book on public-shaming could never be a success. Aside from the seeing the irony of getting shamed into not writing a book on public-shaming acting as an incentive to his motivation to complete the publication which became an enormous success, it also sets another example of determination and dedication coming to fruition as millions of its copies were sold ,other than helping to explain the problem faced by women in Pakistan.
Read MoreThoughts stem from the grooming and experiences in someone’s life, just as flowers stem from their roots. Flowers bloom when they are fully grown; similarly we grow when we bloom as we become adults. The care, nurture, emotions, and ways we believe are incurred in our thoughts as we bloom towards adulthood and play our roles in the society and as a community. However, the glorious symbol of a flower is given to women, who symbolize the different colors of beauty: the different scents of comfort and security: the different forms of love that we all treasure.
Read MoreAs a society, we have come a long way from the mistreatment and abuse of women in the ancient society. In those days, the status of a woman was nothing more than the possession of a man, whether it was her father or her husband. A female’s intellect and existence was considered nothing, compared to men.
Read More"What is the biggest challenge facing women and girls in your country today?" "Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny." As long as a girl or woman continues to be a suffering victim, people are satisfied.
Read MoreBeads of sweat slithered down fifteen year old Sabah’s neck as the illuminating sun emanated heaps of heat, threatening to scorch her brown skin. Dragging a sack of wheat, her eyes landed on a young man with a white shirt, wrinkles and a blue backpack. With envious eyes, she desired the life of that man, so free, so content, yet there she was, hauling the sack of wheat she would never get to eat.
Read MorePoverty, lack of education, disease, forced marriage, domestic violence and honour killing; these are a few of the issues the women of my country have to face. Yes, the women in my country are physically and emotionally damaged by issues that should be nonexistent in the 21st century.
Read MoreShe was an educator. Before that she had been a journalist for 10 years and before that a student of international relations. We had just concluded an intriguing discussion about approaches to education. I marveled at her wisdom. Yet the moment the conversation turned to women’s rights, my relative said something that immediately chilled me to the bone.
“Rape isn’t real”.
Read MoreImagine a life where you cannot leave the house, cannot get an education and are always told that since you are a woman you have no rights. You are not as good as your brothers or the other male members of the family.
Read MoreEver since Mustafa Kemal Atatürk started influencing history, women became more and more active in society. Women were incented more and more to get the proper education, role models were promoted, a new civil code was created based on the Italian civil code to ensure laws that protect women's' rights.
Read MoreThe past is like an old photo we always look at; it’s a memory and it’s there to remind us how things used to be. The things that have happened in the past surely stay there and are unchangeable, however they shouldn’t affect how things will be in the future.
Read MoreSeeing what my mother went through that day in the car, I promised myself that I
would never leave a woman alone in this situation. Since then, I have become more aware
and sensitive about women’s issues.
Read MoreWomen have proven that they can do more than just parenting long ago but sad to see so it was never enough. They have proven that they can be just as helpful as men for the community. However there are still some groups, supporting the idea of women not being strong enough as men, not to mention it brings up issues connected with gender equality.
Read MoreIn Afghanistan, like most Middle Eastern countries, women are often under-estimated and approached with condescending comments and jokes. Fear from men has been injected into their veins from childhood. Most importantly the sense of communication, empathy, action, helping and uplifting of each other has been stripped away from them by stoning them to death, killing them, sometimes even burying them alive.
Read MoreI was zapping through the channels on TV to watch something interesting with my ten year
old sister. On a Turkish news channel, we saw the story of a jealous young man who beat
up his wife. He argued that she deserved to be beaten because he caught her glimpsing
another man on the street.
Read MoreZülfinaz? Only Zülfinaz, again? Fine, you can come and solve this question as well.” Zülfinaz, 15, best in her class of 60 (mostly filled with boys), their levels varying from 1st Grade to 8th Grade. She was going to the only school she could. A little, village school, with a faculty to student ratio of 1 to 60. Yet her teacher, saw something in her.
Read MoreIn 1911, the penalty for adultery was made equal for men and women; in1917, forced and underage marriages were declared illegitimate; and, in 1926, with the new Turkish Civil Code, a monogamous marriage in which women have a right to divorce, custody, and property was made compulsory (Türkiye’de Kadın); yet a century has passed and the headline still reads: "15-year-old girl killed by family after being raped by cousins"
Read More“A woman does not need an education - she belongs in the kitchen.” This is a sentence which a lot of people used to say many years ago. Nowadays, you would say it is ridiculous to even think about something like this attitude.
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