(MENAFN) International Women's Day is being celebrated all over Turkey through events including marches and workshops, with an emphasis on violence which has become a headache of the modern Turkish society.About 40 million women in the country enjoy far better legal protections than many of their counterparts in other Middle Eastern countries after thorough reforms by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, in the late 1920s and 1930s.On the other hand, deep-seated and limiting conservative views of women's role in the Turkish society often lead to serious problems and domestic violence, and official data shows that 409 women were killed in 2017 alone.Numerous 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.
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