مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - UP ON THE POSITION OF THE WOMAN IN THE PRE-ISLAMIC TURKISH SOCIETY

Abstract :

The position of the women and the children play an important role in determination of the level of the civilisation of the society. The rights of both groups actually provide a better point of view of the societies towards human rights from the most primitive societies up to now. In the dominant patriarcial structure in the ancient civilisations the killing of the girls, their living under the custody of someone or not being regarded to be given a name are the bad examples of indication that displays the dimensioın of the sex discrimination. Similarly it a common fact that there are societies when a woman is killed the murderer is never punished and the woman and children work for the father and the husband gets divorced form his wife whenever he wants. During these times when all these are experienced what the position of the woman in the Turkish society is will be an important criteria to determine the place of the Turks in the history of civilisation. When the matter starting from the point of the position of the woman in the family and the society together with political and legal rights is illuminated the position of the Turks who are despised as nomadic and about whom some ideas are fabricated claiming that they did not contribute to the history of civilisation with some prejudices will start to come to the fore.