Yakin Ertürk (born 1945) is a Turkish former United Nations special rapporteur on violence against women and board member of the

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(UNRISD), and was a professor of Sociology.

Early life and education

Ertürk has a B.A. from

Hacettepe University Hacettepe University is a leading state university in Ankara, Turkey. It was established on 8 July 1967. It is ranked first among the Turkish universities by URAP in 2021. The university has two main campuses. The first campus is in the old to ...

(1969) and a Ph.D. in Sociology from

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: her thesis (1980) was on "Rural change in Southeastern Anatolia : an analysis of rural poverty and power structure as a reflection of center-periphery relations in Turkey".

Career

Ertürk held posts at

King Saud University King Saud University (KSU, ar, جامعة الملك سعود) is a public university in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Established in 1957 by King Saud bin Abdulaziz to address the country's skilled worker shortage, it is the first university in the K ...

(1979-1982),

(1983—1986) and

Middle East Technical University Middle East Technical University (commonly referred to as METU; in Turkish language, Turkish, ''Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi'', ODTÜ) is a public university, public Institute of technology, technical university located in Ankara, Turkey. The ...

(METU) (1986-1987) before joining the

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in 1997 to become Director of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW) in

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, Dominican Republic (1997-1999) and then Director of The Division for the Advancement of Women at UN headquarters in New York (1999-2001). She rejoined the faculty of METU in 2002, and was a professor in the Department of Sociology until her retirement, and was also the chair of the university's Gender and Women's Study Programme. She was a Visiting Global Associate,

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, the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) and the Institute for Women’s Leadership (IWL) Consortium (15 Sept. 2017-15 April 2018). In 2003, she was appointed as the United Nations special rapporteur on violence against women, and held this position for six years. 2009-2013, she served on the Council of Europe Committee on the Prevention of Torture.

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* In the UN's ''

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Early life and education

Career

Selected publications

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