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As part of the March 8 Women’s Day discussions of Bilgi University, Prof. Ferida Acar, lawyer Hülya Gülbahar from the EŞİK platform, journalist-writer Berrin Sönmez and Bilgi University faculty member Prof. Turgut Tarhanlı addressed the audience.

Citizens have “called on everyone to take responsibility to build a democratic Turkey, which is based on a secular law where women can fully exercise their rights in line with the spirit of the Civil Code and which is egalitarian, liberal, fair and pluralistic.”

The Constitutional Court annulled the expression in the Civil Code that banned charity membership.