Paper Title
Marriage of Underage Girls Problem in Turkey: the Role of Twitter on the Problem of Child Marriages

Abstract
Twitter is an important social media tool. It enables people to create their own public sphere. Especially in the last decade, social media has become more important since it now has the power to create social change. From this reality, to evaluate if social media can be a chance for women and children to change the social structure in a positive manner, Twitter posts are examined in this study by handling the problem of child marriages in Turkey. Marriages of underage girls problem is an important issue for Turkey. Despite this fact, this subject is not represented on social media adequately. In this regard, this study firstly handle the problem of marriages of underage girls problem in Turkey and secondly it will analyze the way of presentation of the problem of marriage of underage girls in Turkish social media to evaluate the role of Twitter on one of the important problem of Turkey. Keywords - Child Marriages, Marriages of Underage Girls, Turkish Social Media, Twitter, Child Marriages Problem on Twitter.