Legal gender recognition in Turkey

Legal Recognition of Intersex Persons; From Negative Recognition to Positive Recognition

Incontrovertibly each person’s body has an undeniable role in shaping personality and in self- definition of ego. Nowadays and based on scientific efforts, we know sex and accordingly, gender, as a spectrum in inter bodily experience. Over the long years intersex status was considered a "disorder", but recently and in the light of modern medical, psychiatric and cognitive science, "different" e...

Gender Differences in Suicide Methods in Turkey

Suicide, the act of killing oneself intentionally [1-3] is one of the most serious problems in the world. Every year, about 800,000 people die by committing suicide (WHO [World Health Organization], 2016). The global suicide rate is 16 per 100,000 population [4]. As in most countries, death by suicide is also a serious problem in Turkey, which accounts for between 4.6% and 24.3% of deaths annua...

Gender Stereotyping : Transnational Legal Perspectives

The book Gender Stereotyping: Transnational Legal Perspectives orients gender stereotyping as the underlying cause of much of the discrimination that occurs against women throughout the world. The book discusses the duty and ability of state and non-state actors to dismantle negative gender stereotypes and diminish their effect. The authors, Rebecca J. Cook and Simone Cusack, writing from a tra...

Women in Turkey under Pressure of Inconsistent and Contradictory Legal Systems: Secular versus Islamic

As Turkey is officially a secular state and it adopts Swiss Civil Code, thestate implements secular legal system. However, as people in Turkey are predominantlyMuslim and theyare born and raised in a traditionally Muslim environment,people generally and especially women live under the influence of these two sometimescontradictory and inconsistent legal systems and customs. As a result, thereare...

Legal recognition of neocortical death.