Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
The presidential decision on March 20th, at midnight, declaring that “Turkey has withdrawn from The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence”, commonly known as Istanbul Convention, has led the international community to turn their gaze (...)
It is not an exaggeration to say that the year 2020 has been a very challenging year for the women’s movement in Turkey, even without the severe consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, which added to the everyday problems of women in terms of social reproduction work, gender based violence and (...)
In Turkey, nationalist dogma and women’s subordination go hand in hand.
In early August 2017, two women in the Turkish city of Izmir sought help from police after being harassed on the street by a motorcyclist. One officer responded to the women’s plea by informing them: “That’s what they (...)
The number of women murders in Turkey increased by 1,400 percent within seven years. As far as divorce cases are concerned, 85 percent of all applications in Istanbul are related to violence.
The number of women murders in Turkey increased by factor 14 within a period of seven years. While 66 (...)
RESİSTANCE AGAINST AKP’S PATRIARCHAL ATTACK
Like every authoritarian government AKP has a special interest in suppressing women and children that gives them the opportunity to naturalise and justify its despotic and patriarchal rule. They have attempted to take back many rights of women since (...)
Kurdish women in one of the strongest and most radical women’s movements in the world are taking a battering from the Turkish state with impunity - as Europe looks the other way.
Ayla Akat Ata, spokeswoman of Free Women’s Congress (KJA), 8th March celebration 2014 when she was still an MP.
‘’We (...)
We woke up this morning to news of the detainment of members of parliament from the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) and an explosion in Diyarbakır. We live in a time and geography where even “good morning” has become a luxury. But we want to be able to say “good morning” or “good night” to each (...)
After this military coup, the government may use this as an excuse to strengthen their sexist, militarist and anti-democratic policies further. We face this danger now.
The authors write:
The prominence of Kurdish women in Rojava (western Kurdistan/northern Syria) inspired us initially to (...)
AKP government wages a bloody war against women in Turkey. All forms of violence against women increased by a rate of 1400% since they came in the power in 2002. At least three women are killed in a day (5406 women were killed between 2002 and 2015) mostly by their husbands or ex-husbands for (...)
On March 6, International Women’s Day protests in Turkey were met with violent repression, with Turkish police shoving protesters and then firing rubber bullets to disperse a crowd of hundreds of women in central Istanbul. Protesters had gathered despite a ban on the march by the governor of (...)
The attempted rape, murder, and burning of 20-year-old university student Özgecan Aslan on Feb. 11th touched a nerve in a society where male-on-female violence has been a chronic problem. Massive demonstrations throughout Turkey followed soon after, but what will it take to stem the surge in (...)
Turkish president also accuses feminists of not understanding special status attributed to mothers by Islam.
The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has been accused of blatant sexism after declaring that women are not equal to men and claiming feminists in Turkey reject the idea of (...)
This essay will seek to address the main cleavages that exist within the feminist movements of Turkey. These cleavages have become most apparent following the second wave of feminism which occurred following the 1980 military coup d’état and are considered to exists in three forms.
Arguably the (...)
TO THE POLICIES OF THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE GOVERNMENT OF TURKEY THAT TARGET GENDER EQUALITY, WOMEN’S BODIES, REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, AND SEXUALITY, OUR RESPONSE IS A RESOUNDING “NO!”
We demand that the process to ban abortion be ceased IMMEDIATELY!
• Banning abortion or further limiting the (...)
Abortion is a Right, Decision Belongs to Women
Abortion right has been put under attack in Turkey by the Prime Minister Erdoğan repeatedly saying “I see abortion as murder”. He then outrageously likened abortion to Uludere, the village in Turkey’s Iraqi border where 34 Kurdish civilians were (...)
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has described abortion as tantamount to “murder”, angering women’s rights groups and sparking an intense debate in the mainly Muslim nation.
In line with Mr Erdogan’s comments, Turkey’s health minister proposed a change in the abortion law, which rights (...)
Background
In Turkey, when legislative developments regarding abortion since the establishment of the Republic are examined, it is possible to map out three distinct phases starting from a phase of abortion ban to a phase when abortion was legalized within the first ten weeks of pregnancy. (...)
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