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DİYARBAKIR (DİHA) - According to the public survey conducted by Yenişehir Municipality' Woman Training and Psychological Consultancy (EPİ-DEM) Center 95 percent of the women in Diyarbakır are unemployed and 68.2 percent of working women earn under minimum wage.

In Diyarbakır EPİ-DEM has conducted a survey with 200 women in 5 districts of Seyran Neighborhood, and with 80 in Dicle and Ferit Köşk Districts.In addition to 280 women attending the questionnaire prepared by Sociologist Rozan Kahraman 400 women have been interviewed. The poll consisting of 58 questions has made with female aged between 15-50 years who are either single or married. The poll aims to research the women'-living in the poor neighborhoods of Diyarbakır- social, economical and cultural situations, their family structures, the reasons that cause them to be in the existing situation and how immigrations affect the family structure.

According to the results 51.7 percent are uneducated and cannot sufficiently benefit from educational and social rights.95 percent are unemployed.68.2 percent lead their lives by minimum wage. Sociologist Kahraman links the reasons of this to the war held in the region, immigration, inadequate educational implementations and the policies peculiar only to the region.

By the inquiry women's attendance to the social and cultural activities more clearly appeared. Only 0.4 percent participates in cultural events once in a month and 95.4 does not. Stating women are made prisoner to a life whose boundaries are limited, Kahraman said,'' Family pressure and Financial reasons mostly encountered are to hinder women from attending to cultural life.

The survey has made it violence to women more explicit .As to the results 36.8 are subject to intensity. The violence done by husbands or families is internalized and considered as ordinary. Kahraman says those women who have not obtained their identities and self-confidence keep silent against violence and cannot develop a rightful manner and consciousness.

An other remarkable result is that girls are married off at young ages by traditional yoke ceremonies.19.6 percent of women have married at the age of 15 or even under it.50.4 have gotten married between the ages 16 and 20.They are married off in traditional ways that the girl is visited as a prospective bride and the marriage is approved if the bride candidate is liked.51.4 keep silent in the case violence done to them. They have not heard of their legal rights and non-governmental organizations.

Colloquial language is Kurdish that is spoken among women most.6.9 percent speaks in Turkish, and 64 percent in Middle Kurdish (Kurmanci), 24.3 in both Turkish and Kurmanci,11.5 percent speaks in Zazaki.64 percent of the participants said they spoke their mother tongue at everywhere.22.5 percent said only in the family,20 percent only among friends and in family,0.4 of them said only among their friends they spoke in their mother tongue, Kurdish.

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