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For civil society and rights defenders, five more years of the Turkish president and his radical backers are a daunting prospect
On Sunday, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was declared the winner of Turkey’s presidential runoff elections. According to numbers reported by the state-owned Anadolu news (...)
When government responses to a natural disaster do not address the specific needs and vulnerabilities of women and girls, women tend to lose trust in the institutions.
When natural disasters strike, women and girls tend to experience disproportionate challenges and heightened risks.
They (...)
President Erdogan withdrew Turkey from the Council of Europe’s Istanbul Convention last year, prompting anger from women’s rights groups.
A top administrative court in Turkey has ruled that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s decision to pull the country out of a key European treaty protecting (...)
As of today, the Istanbul convention ceases to be effective in Turkey. But that’s not the end of the story.
On March 20th, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, issued a midnight decree, annulling Turkey’s ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating (...)
The presidential decision on March 20th, at midnight, declaring that “Turkey has withdrawn from The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence”, commonly known as Istanbul Convention, has led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 (...)
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 (...)
On 21 July 2020, 27-year old university student Pınar Gültekin was murdered by her ex-boyfriend, becoming another victim of Turkey’s wave of femicides. Gültekin was declared missing for six days before she was found dead, strangled to death for refusing to reconcile with her former partner. (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 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 (...)
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.
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The prominence of Kurdish women in Rojava (western Kurdistan/northern Syria) inspired us initially (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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