Women Issues Archive
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Alâ: Turkish fashion magazine created for women who wear headscarves
Posted on January 29, 2012 | 2 CommentsIt’s Vogue for the veiled! Turkish fashion magazine created for women who wear headscarves By Katie Silver A magazine for the modern, fashion-conscious Muslim woman is proving that when it... -
OIC enhances Muslim women’s role
Posted on December 28, 2011 | No CommentsJEDDAH, 28 Muharram/24 Dec (IINA)-Secretary General of the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, has praised the Muslim women role in bringing about socio-political changes in the... -
No Need for Secularism in Tunisia
Posted on December 26, 2011 | No CommentsThe leader of the Tunisian Islamist Ennahda party Ghannouchi says the closest example of their experience is Turkey, but they do not need secularism in Tunisia. The closest example to... -
Muslim Lite: Women, Islam and the Turkish Way
Posted on December 22, 2011 | No Commentsin collaboration with his NYU-AD seminar “They are trying to make Istanbul into Teheran,” an old man tells me on the street. This beautiful city that hinges Europe and Asia... -
New political role of women in Islamic world to be raised in Istanbul on 21-25 December
Posted on December 22, 2011 | No CommentsNew political role of women in Islamic world to be raised in Istanbul on 21-25 December Baku, Fineko/abc.az. International conference “Role of women in changing Muslim society” will be held... -
Istanbul Working to Make Mosques More Female-Friendly
Posted on December 16, 2011 | 1 CommentTurkish women pray in the courtyard of the Fatih mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, (File Photo) InTurkey’s largest city, a revolution is occurring in its mosques. A project has been launched... -
Making Mosques a Place for Women
Posted on December 10, 2011 | No CommentsA campaign to make Istanbul’s roughly 3,100 mosques more welcoming for women could set off a gender revolution in Turkey’s places of Islamic worship – and one that may not... -
Joining a Dinner in a Muslim Brotherhood Home
Posted on December 8, 2011 | No CommentsBy NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF CAIRO If you want to understand the Islamic forces that are gaining strength in Egypt and scaring people here and abroad, let me tell you about... -
Seeking real equality for Turkey’s women
Posted on December 5, 2011 | No CommentsBy Idil Aybars The Daily Star Turkish women were among the first in Europe to exercise political rights with the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1924, but 87... -
Saudi women with attractive eyes may be forced to cover even them up, if resolution is passed
Posted on November 20, 2011 | 2 CommentsIslamic state fears effect of ‘tempting’ eyes on men Says it ‘has the right’ to issue repressive edict Women must already cover their hair and wear full-length black cloak By MAIL... -
Women & Islam: The rise and rise of the convert
Posted on November 11, 2011 | 1 CommentThree-quarters of Britons who become Muslims are female. Now a major new study has shed light on the difficulties they face in adjusting to their new life. Record numbers of... -
![Fritz Lodge Blogger [Reported from the WISE Conference in Istanbul. All non-cited quotations or paraphrasings drawn from notes on the conference or interviews with WISE participants.] The “fearful fatalistic apathy”,...](http://www.turkishnews.com/en/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/225x200a.gif "The WISE Women of Islam: What a Conference in Istanbul Can Tell Us About the Future of Women in the Muslim World")
The WISE Women of Islam: What a Conference in Istanbul Can Tell Us About the Future of Women in the Muslim World
Posted on October 28, 2011 | No CommentsFritz Lodge Blogger [Reported from the WISE Conference in Istanbul. All non-cited quotations or paraphrasings drawn from notes on the conference or interviews with WISE participants.] The “fearful fatalistic apathy”,... -
Muslim Women Ask if Religion Bars Them from Leadership Roles
Posted on October 17, 2011 | No CommentsPosted on October 16, 2011 by dilshadali “Change doesn’t happen by itself. You need change agents.” – Daisy Khan Upwards of 200 (mostly Muslim) women from about 50 countries... -
Photograph Fuels Push for Turkish Women’s Rights
Posted on October 12, 2011 | 1 CommentGraphic Image Fuels Push to Protect Turkish Women Photo of Stabbing Victim Puts Rights Issues on Front Page By MARC CHAMPION ISTANBUL—A Turkish newspaper’s front-page photograph of a woman with... -
Who are Middle East’s most influential women?
Posted on October 5, 2011 | No CommentsFrom Rima Maktabi, CNN An International Women’s Day protest in Ankara, Turkey, in March 2011 STORY HIGHLIGHTS Tell us which women from the Middle East inspire you most Do you... -
Women in Saudi Arabia to vote and run in elections
Posted on September 26, 2011 | No CommentsWomen in Saudi Arabia are to be given the right to vote and run in future municipal elections, King Abdullah has announced. He said they would also have the right... -
With satire, woman’s magazine tackles taboos in Turkey
Posted on July 29, 2011 | No CommentsBy Ece Toksabay ISTANBUL, July 20 | Wed Jul 20, 2011 1:47pm EDT ISTANBUL, July 20 (Reuters) – A man stabs a woman in broad daylight in the middle of... -
Siddiqui: An Istanbul family defies all clich?s
Posted on July 23, 2011 | No CommentsBy Haroon Siddiqui ISTANBUL Turkey has had legal gender equality for nearly a century. It had a female prime minister, Tansu Ciller, long before Germany got Angela Merkel as chancellor.... -
Turkey hijab ban distresses women
Posted on July 3, 2011 | No CommentsTurkey hijab ban distresses women A large number of the hijab-wearing relatives, and in particular the wives, of the members of Turkey’s armed forces have lost their emotional balance because... -
Cherie Blair not so well – versed on Turkey
Posted on July 2, 2011 | 1 CommentWe recently met with Cherie Blair, the spouse of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, at the Istanbul home of Arzuhan Doğan Yalçındağ, the chairwoman of Doğan Holding and former...
