%0 Journal Article %T Perceptions of War and The Solutions of Mothers of Martyrs in Turkey %A Esra Gedik %J Fe Dergi : Feminist Ele£¿tiri %D 2009 %I Ankara University %X In this study, I want to evaluate mothers of martyrs¡¯ perception of the war and solution while to protect its citizens is the state duty, with the assumption of questioning their son's death, whether they can transform being a mother of a martyr into anti-war women as women examples in the world we have seen. Obviously, as the martyr's mother, these women have acquired new identities. Nevertheless, how the above-mentioned attitude of questioning motherhood is limited by what the different discourses? As a result, these women, mothers of martyrs, are to remain silent. In this context, throughout my research, as previously mentioned, these women in Turkey have been represented, as a mother of a martyr, will be reviewed. %K Mothers of martyrs %K nationalism %K religion %K Kurdish question %K war and solution %U http://cins.ankara.edu.tr/sehit.html