چکیده:
As Turkey is officially a secular state and it adopts Swiss Civil Code, the
state implements secular legal system. However, as people in Turkey are predominantly
Muslim and theyare born and raised in a traditionally Muslim environment,
people generally and especially women live under the influence of these two sometimes
contradictory and inconsistent legal systems and customs. As a result, there
are clashes and especially Muslim women are subjected to the negative impact of
those clashes. So for example, women who wear headscarf because of being in
line with Islamic principles face problems when they want to go to school or work
or engage in politics. Or when they want to keep their maiden surname which is
very mainstream practice in many Muslim societies, it becomes impossible for Muslim
women in Turkey because of the secular Swiss Law. In the present paper the
circumstances in which Muslim women live under these inconsistent and contradictory
legal systems will be studied.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"Or when they want to keep their maiden surname which is very mainstream practice in many Muslim societies, it becomes impossible for Mus- lim women in Turkey because of the secular Swiss Law. In the present paper the circumstances in which Muslim women live under these inconsistent and contradic- tory legal systems will be studied.
International Journal of Women’s Research Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall 2013 Background Women under Secular Ideology After Independence War, the new Turkish ruling elite tended to found a secular country which was very different from the former Ottoman Empire, which was founded on religion, din u devlet (Toprak, 1981).
Like those westernized elites who took the path to ban Muslim women’s free- dom of religion and religious practices, extremist Islamists in Turkey alsowanted to abandon women only in their "warm, secured houses" and limit their role just to look after the kids and take care of their husbands.
Conclusion International Journal of Women’s Research Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall 2013 Challenging the Status Quo and Creating more Unified and Women Friendly Thought Muslim women who have been subjected to double standards and mostly con- tradicted views, either stemming from secular or some Islamic circles, have been victims of being under the pressure of inconsistent and contradictory legal systems.
Although the mainstream secular women movement had had a very "white" agenda and it had been indif- ferent to Muslim women’s problems such as headscarf prohibition for a long time, their attitudes have started to change because of direct contact with religious Mus- Women in Turkey under Pressure of Inconsistent ..."