Article: Turkish cypriot women and cedaw (1).

Summary

The current paper was delivered at the "Judicial Colloquium on the Implementation of International Human Rights Law at the Domestic Level" sponsored by the UN Division for the Advancement of Women in Vienna, Austria on 27-29 October 1999. The aim of the paper is to give a brief historical, educational, social, cultural development of the Turkish Cypriot woman from the Ottoman Empire period up to the present day. It covers the difficulty and hardships she faced in the years of Turkish Cypriot struggle against ethnic cleansing by the Greek Cypriots and her right to self-determination. It deals with aspects that have enabled the contemporary Turkish Cypriot ...

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