Women are exposed to many types of violence such as physical, economic and psychological violence all over the world. The women in Turkey also take their shares from this exposure and this problem is extremely painful, threatening and unpreventable. The topic of violence against women is included in literature as the research subject of many disciplines recent years however it is considered as violation of fundamental human rights that manintains its importance but cannot be prevented easily. It is tried to focus on, explain and evaluate the violence against women and femicides, unequal power relations between men and women, status of women in society and the interaction with patriarchal structure in Turkey in this study. This explanation and evaluation is made according to the statistics of gender mainstreaming, violence against women and femicides in Turkey and the reasons of violence against women and femicides. According to this evaluation, the women in Turkey generally exposed to violence by familiar people, especially by their partners and/or other men in the parent. In addition to physical violence, sexual violence is the most common type of violence and the impact of the general perspective of society and public organizations on women and the hierarchical relationship between men and women on violence should be considered in the evaluation of violence fact. The case of femicide is also underwhelming. There is a significant increase in femicides since 2008 until today in Turkey. 'Taking decision by woman for her own life' and 'claiming divorcement' are the most common reasons given by offenders to kill women and these reasons prove that the patriarchal system in Turkey does not consider woman as an individual and subordinates women. The idea of taking decision by woman for her their own lives and claiming for divorcement is perceived as a rebellion to power of men, a disengagement from dominance field of men and a failure of power of men. Men are strong and brave who bring home the bacon, save the honor of family, establish dominance on partner and children and commit violence when required to ensure this dominance and femicide is also included in this violence.

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This study aims 1) to examine the impact of the quality of work life on organizational commitment, and 2) to reveal which of the following factors has an impact most on organizational commitment most: quality of work life, academic title, salary, years in organization, years in current position, type of employment, work arrangement type (full time, part time, etc.) and overtime, perceived organizational protectiveness, and demographic characteristics such as age, gender and marital status. The findings of the study reveal that the quality of work-life has a positive impact on affective and normative commitment of the academicians working for both state and foundation universities whereas it has a negative impact on the continuance commitment. An examination of all the variables on organizational commitment for both types of university shows that the highest impact on affective, normative and continuance commitment of the academicians working for state universities is by the quality of work life, while the highest impact on affective and normative commitment of the academicians working for foundation universities is by the quality of work life, yet years in organization has the highest impact on the continuance commitment for them.

Çok yönlü işleyen, farklı bilim dallan tarafından inceleme konusu edinen şiddet olgusu azalmak yerine her geçen gün daha da yakıcı ve yıkıcı sonuçları olan bir sosyal problem olarak varlığını sürdürmektedir. Bu makale, çok geniş bir kavramsal ve kuramsal arka plana sahip olan şiddet olgusunu, bu eylemden en fazla zarar gören "kadına yönelik şiddet" olgusu ile sınırlandırarak ele almıştır. Bu makalede, "şiddet" olgusunun tanımından yola çıkılarak şiddet kavramının sınırları belirlenmeye çalışılmış; tanımlar çerçevesinde şiddet türlerinin neler olduğu ve özellikle kadına yönelik şiddet ile ilişkilendirilen fiziksel, psikolojik, ekonomik ve cinsel şiddet türleri hakkında bilgi verilmiş; şiddet ile erkek ve kadın arasında eşit olmayan güç ilişkileri, kadının toplumdaki konumu ve ataerkil yapı arasındaki etkileşime odaklanılmış; bu etkileşimden yola çıkılarak şiddetin kadın yüzü yani kadına yönelik şiddet, Türkiye'de yaşanan şiddet ve kadın cinayetleri üzerinden değerlendirilmeye çalışılmıştır.Anahtar Sözcükler: Şiddet, Kadın, Kadına Yönelik Şiddet, Ataerkil. "W OM EN ASPEC T" OF VIOLENCE IN TURKEY AbstractViolence, the fact that is sophisticated and subject of studies by various disciplines, continues its existence as a social problem causing more and more disruptive and destructive results day by day. In this article, the violence phenomenon, having a wide conceptual and theoretical background, is discussed by limiting it to the concept of 'violence against women' who are the most damaged from this action. In this article, it is tried to define the limits of violence concept according to the 'violence' fact, give information about types of the violence and physical, psychological, economic and sexual violence types associated with violence against women, focus on violence and inequal power relationships between men and women, interaction between status of women in society and patriarchal structure of society and assess the woman face of violence, that is to say violence against women, according to the violence cases and femicides in Turkey in this article.

This study aims to examine whether there is a significant correlation between the quality of work life and academic title, wages, total number of years in the organisation, total number of years at position, type of employment, work arrangement type (full-time, part-time, etc.), overtime, perceptions about protective nature of the organisation as well as such demographic characteristics as age, gender and marital status, and also looks at the impact of these variables on the quality of work life. The sample was composed of 570 academics from 4 universities in Ankara. Correlation analysis revealed a positive and significant correlation between the quality of work life and academic title, total number of years in the organisation, total number of years at position, wages, age and gender whereas it showed a significant negative correlation between the quality of work life and type of employment, marital status and protective nature of the organisation.