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In this paper international instruments relating the women’s rights and their domestic enforceability will be covered. We will discuss the domestic enforceability of international women’s rights in Turkey. The paper will cover general discussion on the differences of signing and ratifying international agreements and their binding effect. Turkey’s European Union obligations on women’s rights will have special emphasis in the paper, the key principles of the European Community law such as supranational and direct effects will be discussed in order to understand the enforceabilityand binding effects of international women’s’ rights. * This article was presented at the 1st Biennial International Women's Studies Conference themed “The Effects of European Union Enlargement on the Socio-Economic Development of Women”, Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, 22-24 June 2006.

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