Sustainable Development / Agenda 21

Eckhard Gerke

The characteristic feature of the basic concept of Sustainable Development is the universality of the claims of life i. e. the global improvement of basic living conditions while maintaining equal opportunities for living: The aim is a development to satisfy global demands of the present generation and at the same time secure needs and living conditions for future generations. Within this concept e. g. the institutional and political factor for implementing global justice is valued equally to a sustainable, fair distribution of resources.

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Sustainable Development for the Women in Istanbul, Turkey

Güliz Erginsoy

This paper addresses itself to a very brief sociological overview of three different groups of women of Turkey, Istanbul, according to their positions vis à vis education, religion, labour and media. These three different groups are partial presentations of the Turkish society.

Loç villagers are a group of women – daughters, mothers and grandmothers – who were unable to access education in their homeland villages in the North western Anatolia region, and had to migrate to Istanbul and work in the informal sector as domestic labourers for the last two, three generations. As an opposing group to the women of Loç, the women of Garipçe, who are living in Istanbul for at least four generations, can be considered as Istanbulites, deeply anchored to their Eastern Black Sea region patriarchal norms and Islam doctrines. The third group, the teenage female sex workers, are the daughters of migrants from all over Anatolia.

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