A case of collateral damage: widows of religious weddings in Turkey

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dc.authorid0000-0003-1270-0779en_US
dc.contributor.authorUsal, Zeynep Oya
dc.contributor.editorJungwirth, Ingrid
dc.contributor.editorBauschke-Urban, Carola
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-12T20:45:45Z
dc.date.available2024-07-12T20:45:45Z
dc.date.issued2019en_US
dc.departmentFakülteler, İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Felsefe Bölümüen_US
dc.description.abstractThe family is the basic unit of society. It is a social and legal construct and, in various countries, a religious construct. In many states, the rights and responsibilities of married partners are governed by the principles of civil or common law, religious or customary laws and practices, or some combination of such laws and practices that do not comply with human rights of women and their social realities. Inequality in the family is a prevalent form of discrimination against women and is often justified in the name of ideology, tradition and culture. The fundamental issue that instigates this article is the indirect discrimination women in Turkey in de facto partnerships ? notably the religious marriages ? suffer from especially in terms of the economic rights to be granted to spouses during or after the dissolution of their marriage. Taking the example of the Grand Chamber judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Serife Yigit v. Turkey, this article examines the indirect discrimination suffered by women in Turkey who are bound with religious wedding and how this situation is, in fact, a clear example of the hermeneutical injustice experienced by those women. In its judgment Şerife Yiğit v. Turkey1 ? a striking example of this factual situation ? the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) examined the case of a woman, Şerife Yiğit, who was not recognized as the heir of a man to whom she had been married on a purely religious basis for 26 years as the only wife and mother of their six children. Living in a rural area of Turkey, Şerife Yiğit had been unable to claim retirement benefits ? i.e. widow’s pension ? and health insurance on account of their marriage not being legally valid as they were not officially registered as married.en_US
dc.identifier.citationŞimga, H. ve Usal, Z.O. (2019). A case of collateral damage: widows of religious weddings in Turkey. Jungwirth, I., & Bauschke-Urban, C. (Ed.). Gender and Diversity Studies in European Perspectives içinde (s. 88-111).en_US
dc.identifier.endpage111en_US
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-8474-0948-9
dc.identifier.startpage88en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvqsf36t.8#metadata_info_tab_contents
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12415/1832
dc.institutionauthorŞimga, Hülya
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherVerlag Barbara Budrichen_US
dc.relation.ispartofGender and Diversity Studies in European Perspectivesen_US
dc.relation.isversionof10.2307/j.ctvqsf36t.8en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryUluslararası Kitapta Bölümen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.snmzKY05668
dc.titleA case of collateral damage: widows of religious weddings in Turkeyen_US
dc.typeBook Part
dspace.entity.typePublication

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