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    EURO COURT FINES TURKEY 10,000 EUROS FOR GENDER DISCRIMINATION

    13:18, 03 Dec 2014

    The European Court of Human Rights held Dec. 2 that Turkey was to pay
    Emel Boyraz 10,000 euros because of her dismissal from public sector
    employment, a state-run electricity company, on the grounds of gender,
    the Hurriyet Daily News reports.

    Boyraz had worked as a security officer for almost three years
    before being dismissed in March 2004 because she was not a man and
    had not completed military service. The court decided by six votes
    to one that there had been a violation of Article 14 (prohibition of
    discrimination) in conjunction with Article 8 (right for respect to
    private and family life) of the European Convention on Human Rights.

    It also unanimously decided that there had been a violation of the
    right to a fair hearing within a reasonable time.

    The court concluded that Turkey should pay 10,000 euros to Poyraz in
    respect of non-pecuniary damage.

    In the court's opinion, the mere fact that security officers had
    to work night shifts and in rural areas, in addition having to use
    firearms and physical force under certain conditions, had not in
    itself justified any difference in treatment between men and women.

    Moreover, the reason for Boyraz's dismissal had not been her inability
    to assume such risks or responsibilities, there having been nothing to
    indicate that she had failed to fulfil her duties, but the decisions
    of Turkish administrative courts.

    The court also considered that the administrative courts had not
    substantiated the grounds for the requirement that only male staff
    could be employed as security officers in the branch of the state-run
    electricity company.

    http://www.armradio.am/en/2014/12/03/euro-court-fines-turkey-10000-euros-for-gender-discrimination/


    From: Baghdasarian
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