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    Women got full political participation rights in Turkey, including the right to vote and the right to run for officelocally in 1930 (nationwide in 1934)...
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    Women in Turkey have an active participation in national politics, and the number of women in the Turkish parliament has been increasing steadily in recent...
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    The Turkey women's national volleyball team (Turkish: Türkiye Kadın Voleybol Milli Takımı) is formed by the Turkish Volleyball Federation (TVF) and represents...
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    Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe....
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    headscarf controversy in Turkey was a 20th and early 21st century controversy about women wearing Islamic headscarves. The Republic of Turkey had been a secular...
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  • in Turkey), Kurdish women were not allowed into the marketplace, and would be killed if they went there, but women did occasionally assume power in Kurdish...
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  • The Turkish Women's Volleyball League (Turkish: Türkiye Kadınlar Voleybol 1. Ligi) officially called the League of Sultans (Turkish: Sultanlar Ligi),...
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  • Prostitution in Turkey is legal and regulated. The secularization of Turkish society allowed prostitution to achieve legal status during the early 20th...
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    In Turkey, secularism or laicism (see laïcité) was first introduced with the 1928 amendment of the Constitution of 1924, which removed the provision declaring...
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    Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Turkey face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents, though the general climate...
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    recognition of women's right to choose and be elected refers to the adoption of laws necessary for women to gain political rights in Turkey in the 1930s....
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  • Turkey is a presidential republic with a multi-party system. Major parties are defined as political parties that received more than 7% of the votes in...
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    Africans in Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye'deki Afrikalılar), are people of Sub-Saharan African descent who are citizens or residents of Turkey. They are comprised...
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    minority in Turkey. According to various estimates, they compose between 15% and 20% of the population of Turkey. There are Kurds living in various provinces...
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    behaviors of women tempt men to rape." In 2015, Turkish university student Özgecan Aslan was murdered as she resisted a rape attempt on a minibus in Mersin...
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    the most practiced religion in Turkey. As much as 90% of the population follows the Sunni Madhab of Islam. Most Turkish Sunni Muslims belong to the Hanafi...
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  • The Turkish Women's Cup (Turkish: Türkiye Kadınlar Kupası) is the annual cup competition of women's football teams in Turkey. The tournament is also known...
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  • nobility; thus, there is no noble form or type of surname. Since 2014, women in Turkey are allowed to keep their birth names alone for their whole life instead...
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    Women's football in Turkey is the women's branch of football in Turkey and is governed by the Turkish Football Federation (TFF). Although Turkey is one...
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    Turkey is scheduled to compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. Since the nation's official debut in 1908, Turkish...
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    segments of society. One third of all marriages in Turkey are child marriages and one third of women get married under the age of 18. Between 2002 and...
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    Femicide in Turkey is murders in which women are killed for reasons related to their social roles, such as being killed on the grounds of "honor cleansing"...
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    professional women's basketball section of Galatasaray S.K., a major sports club in Istanbul, Turkey. Galatasaray women's basketball team play matches in Ahmet...
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    Human rights in Turkey are protected by a variety of international law treaties, which take precedence over domestic legislation, according to Article...
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  • About a quarter of adults in Turkey smoke. Smoking in Turkey is banned in government offices, workplaces, bars, restaurants, cafés, shopping malls, schools...
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    Christianity in Turkey has a long history dating back to the early origins of Christianity in Asia Minor during the 1st century AD. In modern times the...
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  • Among all sport in Turkey, the most popular one is football. Turkey's top teams include Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray and Beşiktaş. In 2000, Galatasaray won...
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  • Turkish women in academics refers to Turkish women who make scientific research or teach in the universities in Turkey and abroad. During the Ottoman Empire...
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    Religion in Turkey consists of various religious beliefs. While it is known that Islam is the most common religion in the country, published data on the...
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  • Turkish women writers refers to Turkish women contributors to Turkish literature. The area is parallel to Women's writing in English. During the Ottoman...
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