ANKARA, March 7 -- International Women's Day, scheduled on March 8, is being celebrated across Turkey through events including marches and workshops, with an emphasis on violence which has become a headache of the modern Turkish society.
Some 40 million women and girls in Turkey enjoy far better legal protections than many of their counterparts in other Middle Eastern countries after painstaking reforms by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, in the late 1920s and 1930s.
However, deep-seated and restrictive conservative views of women's role in the Turkish society often lead to serious problems and domestic violence, and according to official data, 409 women were killed in 2017 alone.
Several public organizations involved with women's rights created the website www.kadincinayetleri.org (Murder of women), which is also a vocal women's right movement, where statistics on female homicide, a map of the committed crimes, information on murderers and the reasons for these murders are presented.
According to the website, murders may be committed after a woman proposed separation or divorce. In other cases, the murder was often motivated by a suspicion of cheating, jealousy, or honor killings.
Despite the considerable progress Turkey has made toward gender equality, it remains a country governed by strict traditional and religious customs.
Equal rights and protection for women are enshrined in laws, but things are different when it comes to religious conservatism.
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