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Les centres d'hébergement pour les femmes ayant subi des violences sont le produit des féminismes de la deuxième vague partout dans le monde. Ils sont un moyen d'être solidaire avec les femmes ayant subi des violences et, en même temps, l'expérience des femmes, basée sur la violence qu'elles ont vécue et sur les relations de solidarité aux centres, donne une base pour faire la politique pour les féministes. Alors, la plupart des études sur les centres d'hébergement s'occupent de ces sujets. Par contre, à partir d'un étude ethnographique dans les centres d'hébergement en Turquie et à partir de la littérature de l'anthropologie de l'État, nous pourrions dire qu'il n'est pas possible d'examiner les centres d'hébergement en Turquie comme des structures féministes mais plutôt comme des institutions bureaucratique, car la majorité des centres en Turquie sont établis dans le cadre administratif des municipalités ou bien des services sociaux assurés par l'État central.

Gün (day), as a specific form of rotating savings and credit associations in urban Turkey, is a distinct ground for women where middleclass values and norms are performed. In this context, the discussions on being a kaynana (mother-in-law) help us to consider the ways in which the notion of conjugal family is central to the self-perception of women. To oppose the role of kaynanas 'in the past' is women's way of claiming to comply with what they perceive to be the 'modern' way of forming a family and, hence, of being 'modern'. This, in turn, helps us to reconsider the ways in which kinship roles are elaborated in different contexts and shows that the ideas about the proper kinship roles shape the relation of people to the people other than their kin. Ekal, Berna (2006) 'How a Kaynana Should Behave?' Discussions on the Role of Mothers-in-Law in Two Gün Groups', European Journal of Turkish Studies, Thematic Issue N°4, The social practices of kinship. A comparative perspective, URL : http://www.ejts.org/document619.html To quote a passage, use paragraph (§). In this paper, I discuss the position of being a kaynana 1 as it is elaborated by women in two gün 2 groups in a middle-class district in Istanbul. Most of the women in the gün meetings have married children and experienced rural to urban migration either before or after their marriage. I argue that, for these women, the discussions in gün groups about the relations between mothers-inlaw and brides / grooms provide a certain ground in which women claim to comply with 'contemporary' norms, which women identify to be in contrast to the norms when they were young brides, as indicated in the expression 'şimdi başka türlü tabii' 3. This feeling of contemporaneity is distinctive of the perception of 'modern', as can be explained with regards to Mitchell's argument that

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Over the last few years Turkey has seen a changed media visibility of gendered violence, mainly reflected in news and discussions about femicides (murders of women). Once treated as fait-divers, such news now appears on the first pages, or is given the status of ‘special news’. In this process, some cases have become what we call emblematic: stories given an importance reaching far beyond the individual case and thus important in the production of politics on violence against women. Analyzing the dynamics that create emblematic cases by way of the story of Ayşe Paşalı, we argue that not only important public figures, but also ‘ordinary’ people can gain iconic status in the media; this in turn enables the media to demand, on behalf of the women’s movement, that the state take action. Here the strategy of linking ‘ordinary’ cases was picked up by the media and contributed to push the state to show engagement.