Women in Turkey at universities such as Marmara University or as Istanbul University. In 1993, Tansu Çiller became the first female Prime Minister of Turkey. In 2002 the Turkish government reformed Turkish criminal and civil law, and since then, the rights of women and men during marriage, divorce, and any subsequent property rights have all been equalized. A criminal law has been established that deals with the female sexuality as a matter of individual rights, rather than as a matter of family honor. Additions to the Turkish constitution oblige the state to use all the necessary means to promote the equality of the
K. S. Maniam K. S. Maniam Subramaniam Krishnan (born 1942), popularly known as K. S. Maniam, is an Indian Malaysian academic and novelist. K. S. Maniam has been writing from his early teens. His stories have appeared in numerous journals around the world. His first novel, "The Return", was published in 1981 and the second, "In a Far Country", in 1993. He won the first prize for "The Loved Flaw: Stories from Malaysia" in "The New Straits Times"–McDonald short-story contest (1987) and for "Haunting the Tiger: Contemporary Stories from Malaysia" in "The New Straits Times"–Shell contest (1990). He is the inaugural recipient of