The Perception of Gender Issues by the Turkish Columnists: The example of Yeni afak / New Dawn Daily

This paper is written to portray how the center-right Yeni afak Daily’s columnists perceived and dealtwith the Turkish women’s issues in 2008. In the evaluation of the articles as well as in the parts wherethe results are presented, special attention is given to women's issues mostly discussed in Yeni afak andthe gender of the columnists. In 2008, the Yeni afak Daily’s columnists focused on three main areasregarding women. As the first one, male as well as female writers defended that there ought to be nodiscrimination against veiled women. Further, the columnists condemned violence towards women andalso wrote about female politicians. According to the results of this research, female columnists wrotemore than four times than their male colleagues on women’s issues. The Yeni afak Daily’s femalecolumnists who dedicated more than 19% of their total work on women’s issues, are sensitive to genderissues