It has been over 42 days since I last wrote a journal entry. I am currently in Cappadoccia's Goreme town, a very commercialized place for tourists to explore the Byzantine cave dwellings carved in the soft sandstone by clandestine Christians. 



Lets recap the last 42 days. Landing safely in Istanbul was a total surprise. I had not imagined that I would be in Turkey until 2002 and thus had

Women in Turkey Turkey is an interesting example, from the aspect of the position of women, because it is a country which is influenced by all the contradictions of globalization and traditions. 



First of all, the great majority of the population in Turkey is Moslem. Today, women are observed in the forefront of various echelons of the administration of the state. 



However, there are