Turkey's women, between tradition and modernity

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Turkey's accession negotiations with the EU are scheduled to start on October 3 in Luxembourg. In this context, the European Commission is making available to television channels the video report "Turkish women, between tradition and modernity".Since the days of Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the modern Turkish Republic, women have had equal legal rights. They even won the right to vote before women in France. But itís a different story in some rural areas, where tradition and family dominate. This video portrays five Turkish women who give an interesting insight into Turkish society. Guler Sabanci, the head of Sabanci Holding, a huge conglomerate dealing in everything from food to banking and cars. In Turkey, where less than a third of women are officially in work and one in four women is unable to read or write, Guler Sabanci represents another facet of the country, a growing group of educated, modern working Turkish women. In her eyes, the Western Europeans who see Turkey as an over-populated, backward country are not seeing the full picture. Ilgin Cimsek, DJ woman in one of Istanbulís trendy night clubs. Ilgin has never felt any big differences in her professional or social life from any other young people in Western Europe. She knows though that in many rural areas of Turkey young women have a completely different lifestyle. Sheís unhappy that itís this one sided picture of traditional Turkey which is the one usually portrayed in the Western media. Yasar Seyman, writer and trade unionist, is another woman who wants to change the male dominated image of her country. Sheís ready to take on Western prejudices and the traditional mindset of Turkish society. She is one of the rare female trade unionists in the country, in addition to being a journalist, writer and women rightsí defender. Ozcan Caliskan is a police chief in Turkeyís capital Ankara- responsible for 300 people and 75 local police units. In recent years, Turkey has made significant progress in reducing police brutality and violence. According to Ozcan Caliskan, the EU helped in contributing to the improvement of police working methods. Emine Bozkurt, Member of the European Parliament. Emine, herself a daughter of an immigrant Turkish worker, has drawn up a European Parliament resolution on womenís rights in Turkey. The resolution, which was adopted with a huge majority, draws attention to four main problems-: violence against women, education, participation in the labour market and women in Turkish politics. But the resolution recognises that Turkey has carried out legislative reforms which were given a boost by the prospect of EU membership.