After the women took place as workers, the necessity ofprotecting the women in the worklife has arised. The protection wasfirstly held by the international organizations and for this purpose various rules (conventions and directives) have been enacted, whichare designed to promote the equality between men and women and toprevent the gender inequality. These regulations contain provisionson various measures such as the ones, which abolish the incomeinequality, design the limitation of working hours, and declare theworkplaces and types of work, which are not suitable for the womenworkers.In the course of time, the international regulations regarding theprotection of women employees have also had an impact on turkishlaw. Turkish constitution states that the men and women workershave the equal rights, however the woman employees are granted byspecial rights in terms of working conditions. These constitutionalprinciples have already been adopted by the turkish labour legislation.This article discusses the harmonization of the Turkish Labour ActNo. 4857, which was enacted in 2003, and the further relatedlegislation in Turkey to the international rules, especially to the ILOconventions and to the directives of the European Union. Inconclusion, the author points out the fact that, the turkish andinternational legislation have already been successfully harmonized toa wide extent, whereas the development of the legal practice in thesame way has failed.