ABSTRACT
Women in Turkey constitute a diverse group, although this diversity often has been ignored. Non-Muslim women (and men) have been discounted or treated as “foreigners,” and the Muslim population is assumed to be homogenous. The Hanafi school of Sunnite Islam has been imposed on all “Muslims,” practicing or nominal. Until recently Kurds were not recognized as a distinct ethnic group, and Kurdish women have been subject to extra hardship due to a decades-old armed conflict between the PKK Kurdish rebel group and the Turkish military.
