End to sexism in Media!

As MEDIZ-Women's Watch Group, following our ‘End to sexism in media!' campaign, carried out for four months, we would like to remind you of our wish for you and all media members a summer vacation away from sexism.

End to Sexism in Media

The Research on the Forms of Representation of Women in Media by MEDIZ - Women's Media Watch Group - has indicated the following: Media is male-dominated. While news, headlines, and contents are determined, women are either presented as mothers and wives with no specific individual identities, materials for magazine news, lay figures, sexual objects, or they are totally ignored!

The Ultimate Point Where "Social Responsibility" has Reached!

While we were screaming "End to Sexism in media! End to Sexist Commercials", we came across the web site of TBWA Advertising Agency designed as a "social responsibility" project to increase "sensitivity toward global warming"! The web site www.simsicakgeceler.com has been designed in the form of a pornographic web page, with an opening headline that reads "Hot Nights/ Are you ready for a hot night?" You can find pictures of women in bikinis and underwear, and you are asked to click on the pictures for the women to take off their clothes. When you click, they start to striptease and speak to us, "Hot Nights are Approaching! Take steps against global warming!"

End to sexism in Media!

End to Sexist Commercials!

We are fed up with the sexist language, discourse and mentality dominant in media! We are fed up with the creativity based on sexism in commercials, which does not indeed create anything new! We are tired of;
Watching women who are dancing with surface cleaners, in love with their sheets, passionate about their curtains, carrying stain removers in their bags!

End to Sexism in Media!

"Page three girl" in papers, "Victim" or "Monster" in women's talk shows, "Selfless Mother", "Good girl" or "Femme-fatale" in TV serials, Wrapped in "Flag" or "Veil" on politics pages, and generally "Backstage" and "Invisible"

To İsmet Berkan, Executive Editor of Radikal Newspaper,

In your newspaper which listed "Women's Rights" as first among the Turkey's 5 crimes bearing date of 14.01.2007, the passage of "Science man who Suppressed the Disaster" was used in the headline of Television - Cinema (22th) page. We hope you are aware that our present state in terms of "Women's Rights" grows out of just these kinds of ignoring of women's existence and ...

Can't Be Women Genius, Men Beautiful?

Show TV, for the new competition programme called "Güzel ve Dahi" which had adopted from the "Beauty and the Geek" programme broadcasted in ABD, sought and found "young girls who are very beautiful, charming, follow the fashion, like shopping" and "men who are professional in their area, have superior intelligence, can teach computer, mathematics and science issues to girls" and started to broadcast the programme ...

We are Asking To Hasan Pulur and Milliyet Newspaper, What Does "Becermek" Mean?

The meaning of the word "becermek" in the statement of "English fucked German, We Got the Blues" which was used by Hasan Pulur in the heading of the news bearing date of 28th of June, 2007 according to the dictionary of TDK (Turkish Language Institution) is:

To Akşam Newspaper, All Media Members and Related Professional Organizations,

As Media Watch Group, we discount the article of Engin Ardıç in his column in Akşam Newspaper bearing date of the 8th of August which was full of abusive language and aspersion to feminists and all women who are working against sexism with our confidence to the conception and decision already possessed by public opinion about ...

How is Assault News Given?

In the date of 19th of October 2007, assault news took place in Hürriyet, Güneş, Şok and Takvim newspapers. The news took place with the headings of "5 hours torture, 11 times assault" in Hürriyet, "Grouped assault in corn plantation" in Şok, "Series of assault to 2 women" in Takvim and "11 people assaulted all at once" in Güneş ...

To to Haydar Dümen's Sexual Harassment and Provocation of Violence Ever!

We, as women and women's organizations who compose Media Watch Group, for years, do not want to be exposed to declarations of Haydar Dümen that provocate sexual harassment and violence directed to women, whom is introduced as expert of sexual matters at all media channels ...

Do Media Leave Giving Support to Violence?

The news covering that during 44^th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival the head of festival and TÜRSAK Engin Yiğitgil applied verbal and physical violence against the press advisor Nimet Demir took place in written and visual media in previous week ...

51 Women Deputies both at the Parliament and at the Media

The number of women deputies at TBMM reached to 10 % for the first time. 51 women deputies are at the parliament with the help of media in patches. Besides the given support, unfortunately we came upon sexist and discriminatory broadcasts in this election period rather frequently ...

Serdar Turgut, in his column in Akşam Newspaper bearing date of 30th of May, keynoted a danger that is very important for all of us saying that "A country, where women are mentioned, they loom large this amount, does not to be helpful. Our ending is not good. Everybody should know..." We agree concerning some of his sayings:

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