FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE MIDWIVES INURSES

Ab female genital mutilation defines all procedures that involve partial or total removal of theexternal female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs like piercing, cauterization, pricking for non-medical reasons. although genital mutilation is a social and cultural practice that affects a large number of women negatively worldwide, it is not adequately known by many health care professionals in turkey. this practise is an issue that needs to be known for that reason the majority of muslims people live in our country in which contain with a wide variety of cultural characteristics of social groups. also, this issue requires to be addressed in our country that have similar religious and cultural characteristics which are border on country in female genital mutilation is to be practised and in recent years many asylum seeker women live in due to the wars in neighbouring countries. in this regards all health care professionals in our country, especially nurses and midwives can contribute to protecting women's health and development taking account of the fact tha! early and late medical complications and socio-cultural dimensions. in this study prepared in the form of the review which aimed to share the information related to female genital mutilasyon in literature.