[Discussion] OSI FORUM- Violence against Women in Turkey's Southeast, April 19, New York

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OSI FORUM- Violence against Women in Turkey's Southeast, April 19, New York

The Central Eurasia Project invites you to attend

Violence against Women in Turkey's Southeast

With

Nebahat Akkoc
Founder, KA-MER Women's Centre, Turkey
Recipient of 2004 Amnesty International Ginetta Sagan Award

Monday April 19, 2004
12:30 - 2:00 pm

Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP
1133 Avenue of the Americas (between 43rd and 44th St.)
24th Floor
New York, NY 10036

Nebahat Akkoc is a women's rights advocate from Turkey's mainly Kurdish
southeast. A former primary school teacher, she became an anti-violence
activist during the conflict between separatist Kurdish rebels and Turkish
forces. After her husband was killed by unidentified assailants in 1993,
Akkoc was arrested by Turkish police and tortured. In 1997, frustrated by
the lack of attention to the women's issues by the Kurdish political
establishment and the human rights community, she founded KA-MER, the first
independent women's center to offer legal and psychological counseling for
abused women. KA-MER now has centers in seven cities across southeastern
Turkey. Akkoc s latest campaign concentrates on battling honor crimes
against women, a custom that is still commonplace in the region.

To RSVP by April 15 please fax this page to 212-548-4607 or email a 
response
to Anu Kangaspunta-Garfield at akangaspunta@sorosny.org

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