In vitro fertilisation and even newer assisted reproductive technologies are part of everyday life in the contemporary Middle East. There, IVF is practised according to local Islamic norms, which have been reinforced by fatwas from leading religious authorities. As this article will show, ideological differences between dominant Sunni and minority Shi’ite forms of Islam are currently shaping th...

Abstract
 In this study, the influence of Turkish women voters from their spouses and close circles during voting process changes that interaction shows between with different ethnicities were investigated. context, a face-to-face questionnaire was applied to 500 female voters, who determined by stratified sampling among 124,921 registered in Sivas Central electoral rolls identifying thems...