Redefining everyday life: Example of Hakkari women's centers

Purpose of this research is exploring how the gender based relationship, that women experience while accesing urban spaces and instutitions in their lives, take from. In this context, the study aims to explore how economic, social, physical, and public spaces are used, how often women are used,the factors that make up women's perceptions and how they are organized in spaces. Women's urban public space experiences are examined in regards to the gender aspect of disintegration phenomenon. Gender relations are closely related to public place and public space. The effect of gender in women's usage everyday life places, like neigh bourhoods and steets, can create a differentiation. Thus, as everyday life take shape through gender inequality, womens enjoyment of the right to city is restricted. Women's right to the city should be defined and taken into consideration in all practices against the patriarchal structure that manifests itself in every partpart of daily life. To achieve this, it should be accepted that right to city is valid not only in public spaces: but it's also about private spaces and exercising this right in both public and private spaces is not just a legal problem: but iy's mainly i social issue. Masculine spaces, which causes the exclusion of women, should be transformed to places that support women's collective power. In the research, city and space perception of women, who lives Hakkari and how they use the city has been discussed in the aforementioned context. During this evaluation it has been highlighted in the research that women's organizations' lead women's status to a participatory point through social change. Within this dedicated to women, and change of everyday life practices through women's organizations' activites as concepts. In the search it can be said that concepts of being organized or solidarity used as a baseline, specifically while analysing the change of women's usage of spaces through women' organizations' activites. Therefore a field work has been conducted with the women who have conections with women's organizations and participate their activites in the city. As in-depth debate were being directed with the women's organizations in Hakkari, a survey with a random sampling method has been conducted with the women who participate in the activites of the NGOs. In the research, the meaning of everydaylife for the women in Hakkari example and effects of women's organizations existence to women's usage of space evaulated together.