Objective: This study was conducted to examine the attitudes of married women towards domestic violence. Method: Thisdescriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted between April and June 2010 with 1,010 women in five Family HealthcareCenters in the province of Erzincan, Turkey. The data were collected using a descriptive questionnaire and the AttitudesTowards Domestic Violence Scale. When analyzing the data, numbers, percentages, minimum and maximum values, meansand standard deviations as well as the Mann-Whitney-U, Kruskall Wallis variance and Spearman correlation analyses wereused. Results: The average score of married women's Attitude Towards Domestic Violence Scale was 31,6 ± 7,0 and theentire women were found to have been exposed to verbal/psychological violence, 31,6% of them to physical violence, 28,3%to economic violence and 1.4% to sexual violence. Women who themselves were high school graduates and their husbandswere high school and university graduates and had a job, who had no children, who lived in a nuclear family in a city ortown, who perceived their income being more than their expenses, who stated that they made decisions together with theirhusbands and who were married at a more advanced age had more negative attitudes towards violence (p<0.001; p<0.01).Conclusion: The attitude of women against domestic violence was at a moderate level and they all were exposed to somekind of violence, verbal/psychological violence being at the top of the list. Nurses and other healthcare professionals shouldbe sensitive about, and take responsibility for, the prevention of domestic violence and strengthening women supportsystems.