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International Women's Day to be Marked Around Country
03/08/2010 18:24:23
Sunday, March 7, 2010
ISTANBUL - Daily News with wires
As International Women's Day ismarkedby various discussions and activities Monday, some women's groups took to the streetsoverthe weekend to demand the day be made an official holiday.
Representatives froma number ofnon-governmental organizations and political parties gathered in Istanbul's Kadıköydistricton Saturday to demand Women's Day be declared an official holiday with full pay, Anatolia news agency reported Sunday.
Thedemonstratorschantslogans saying, "Women do not want to live like birds in a cage," and "No tomassacresagainst women." Other participants, meanwhile, drewmustacheson their faces to protest thepatriarchalsystem.
In a separate event designed to increase women's power and involvement in football, the Turkish Football Federation is organizing a football match between two teams that include professional female players, female journalists and actresses.
The matchkicks offat 11 a.m. in the Beylerbeyi district on Istanbul's Anatolian side.
At the same time a panel examining "migrantwomen and writers," will beheldat the Tarık Zafer Tunaya Culture Center in Istanbul's Taksim on Monday. Writer Salma Jayyusi, Lebanese women's rights activist Joumana Haddad, Syrian poet Maram al-Masri, Iraqi poet Amal al-Jubouri and Nathalie Handal, an American poet with Palestinian origin, will attend the seminar to share their thoughts.
Turkey's WomenAssociations'Federation was planning to begin its "Create the Change" campaign in İzmir late Sunday with a press conference at the same time activists were planning to organize a demonstration in İzmir's Konak Square.
Monday will also see the opening of "Being a man is an exception," a photographexhibitionorganized by the Community Volunteers' Foundation, in more than a dozen provinces, including Istanbul, Ankara and İzmir.
More than 30 groups attended the Kadıköy protest, including the Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions, or KESK, the Human Rights Association, or İHD,AmnestyInternational, the Women Workers' Association, and political parties such as the Peace and Democracy Party, or BDP, the Freedom and Democracy Party, or ÖDP, and the Labor Party, or EMEP.
Initiative for prostitutes
Meanwhile, a special unit in the Prime Ministry's Human Rights Department will begin a project aimed at givingprostitutesthe opportunity to find alternative employment, the daily Akşam reported Sunday.
Sociologists and psychologists interviewed 3,000registeredprostitutes working atbrothelsto determine whether they have been forced into the job and whether they would prefer another line of employment.
There are 15,000 registered prostitutes in Turkey, 3,000 of whom work in 56 brothels. There are an estimated 100,000 unregistered prostitutes in the country.
Vocabulary Exercise
1. ......... organizations are likely to influence more people than local ones.
Foreign
Small
Some
International
2. Their engagement is now ......... .
official
inofficial
unknown
fake
3. Meeting lasted longer than expected because the ......... couldn't make a decision.
workings
they
participants
organzations
4. Tomorrow's parade will ......... the fiftieth anniversary of the battle.
hold
keep
mark
discuss
5. They decided not to take legal action ......... him.
against
accuse
sue
complaning
6. My wife and I have ......... bank accounts.
a fews
difficult
separate
security
7. Seventy percent of the country's ......... is with Europe.
money
trade
tradition
population
8. We don't usually accept late applications, but this time we will make an ......... and accept your application.
eruption
extraction
exerption
exception
9. He bought two houses. It was a good ......... to utilize his savings.
Dünya Kadınlar Günü Bütün Ülkede Kutlanacak - International Women's Day to be Marked Around Country
Sunday, March 7, 2010
ISTANBUL - Daily News with wires
As International Women's Day ismarkedby various discussions and activities Monday, some women's groups took to the streetsoverthe weekend to demand the day be made an official holiday.
Representatives froma number ofnon-governmental organizations and political parties gathered in Istanbul's Kadıköydistricton Saturday to demand Women's Day be declared an official holiday with full pay, Anatolia news agency reported Sunday.
Thedemonstratorschantslogans saying, "Women do not want to live like birds in a cage," and "No tomassacresagainst women." Other participants, meanwhile, drewmustacheson their faces to protest thepatriarchalsystem.
In a separate event designed to increase women's power and involvement in football, the Turkish Football Federation is organizing a football match between two teams that include professional female players, female journalists and actresses.
The matchkicks offat 11 a.m. in the Beylerbeyi district on Istanbul's Anatolian side.
At the same time a panel examining "migrantwomen and writers," will beheldat the Tarık Zafer Tunaya Culture Center in Istanbul's Taksim on Monday. Writer Salma Jayyusi, Lebanese women's rights activist Joumana Haddad, Syrian poet Maram al-Masri, Iraqi poet Amal al-Jubouri and Nathalie Handal, an American poet with Palestinian origin, will attend the seminar to share their thoughts.
Turkey's WomenAssociations'Federation was planning to begin its "Create the Change" campaign in İzmir late Sunday with a press conference at the same time activists were planning to organize a demonstration in İzmir's Konak Square.
Monday will also see the opening of "Being a man is an exception," a photographexhibitionorganized by the Community Volunteers' Foundation, in more than a dozen provinces, including Istanbul, Ankara and İzmir.
More than 30 groups attended the Kadıköy protest, including the Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions, or KESK, the Human Rights Association, or İHD,AmnestyInternational, the Women Workers' Association, and political parties such as the Peace and Democracy Party, or BDP, the Freedom and Democracy Party, or ÖDP, and the Labor Party, or EMEP.
Initiative for prostitutes
Meanwhile, a special unit in the Prime Ministry's Human Rights Department will begin a project aimed at givingprostitutesthe opportunity to find alternative employment, the daily Akşam reported Sunday.
Sociologists and psychologists interviewed 3,000registeredprostitutes working atbrothelsto determine whether they have been forced into the job and whether they would prefer another line of employment.
There are 15,000 registered prostitutes in Turkey, 3,000 of whom work in 56 brothels. There are an estimated 100,000 unregistered prostitutes in the country.
Vocabulary Exercise