Abstract:

Although Turkey became a party to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in 1986, it originally included very extensive reservations, most of which arose from the former Turkish Civil Code’s (fTCC) incompatibility with CEDAW. However, in 1999, Turkey withdrew a substantial portion of its reservations due to revisions to the Turkish Civil Code. Nevertheless, regrettably, even today it cannot be said that the new Turkish Civil Code is entirely compatible with CEDAW. This paper firstly aims to explore these incompatibilities between CEDAW and the Turkish Civil Code by analysing changes to the Code in comparison with related Articles of CEDAW. The paper will then recommend what should be done in order to make the Turkish Civil Code (TCC) completely compatible with CEDAW with de lege feranda suggestions. Keywords: Turkish Civil Code, CEDAW, reservations, gender equality, family law.

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