By TM – November 3, 2020

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A report released by the Stop the Murder of Women Platform shows that 21 women in Turkey were victims of fatal domestic violence in October.

According to the report the reasons for the murder of 12 of the women were unknown, while nine of them were killed by men in retribution for requesting a divorce, for refusing to engage in a romantic relationship, for rejecting a marriage proposal or for failing to reconcile with their former partners.  

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The report said authorities’ failure to determine the reasons behind the killing of the 12 women is a result of the increasing violence against women and their being kept away from public attention.

Feminist movement leader Ayşe Gökkan and thirteen other Kurdish militants were

arrested on October 30 in an Erdogan operation in Amed, the capital of Turkish Kurdistan, and Mardin where they are now still held without further news. Gökkan was also arrested in July by Turkish police and is a spokeswoman for the Tevgera Jinên Azad or Free Women’s Movement.

Women’s rights organizations have for years been trying to raise awareness about the increase in violence against women that has taken place in the last decade.

The platform also accused the Turkish ministry responsible for family, labor and social affairs of failing to follow up on the murders.

“Instead of revealing how many women were killed, by whom and for what reason, the ministry is distorting the facts by claiming that the number of murders of women is wrong. According to the İstanbul Convention, the state has the authority to reveal the statistics,” the platform said.

The İstanbul Convention, signed by member countries of the Council of Europe in 2011 to promote women’s rights and prevent domestic violence in societies, has recently been the subject of a heated public debate in Turkey.

Some conservative circles claim the İstanbul Convention has destroyed families by introducing “foreign terminology” to traditional Turkish values and the law.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has repeatedly said he sees gender equality as contradictory to the nature of men and women.

In the meantime, a video posted online on Tuesday showed a bridegroom violently hitting his bride on a roadside in the Belen district of Hatay.

The video, which was shot by someone in a car passing by on the road, shows how some women in Turkey are subjected to male violence even on the day when they are supposed to be their happiest.

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July 14, 2020 by Kurdish Center for Human Rights

Another wave of arrests against women activists: Political genocide in Turkey

Dozens of women were arrested in Amed on Tuesday morning, including Ayşe Gökkan spokeswoman of the TJA (Tevgera Jinên Azad / Free Women’s Movement), journalist Ayşe Güney, seventy-year-old Peace Mother Hayriye Demir and Elif Haran, the co-chair of the prisoners’ aid organisation MED TUHAD-FED.

The repression against the Kurdish women’s movement in Turkey has intensified since the criminalisation of the Rosa women’s association in May and is part of the extermination campaign against Kurdish civil society. The fact that the struggle of the Kurdish women causes fear to patriarchal rulers and triggers particular aggression has become clear at the latest since the victory over the terror militia ISIS.

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Outrage in Turkey after State Agency says Girls can be Married at Age 9.

Şeyma, 16, was killed by her own father

In February, Şeyma Yıldız was killed by her own father in Ankara, Turkey because she had posted what he thought were “inappropriate images” online.

Her father later claimed he shot her because she had a boyfriend, which all her friends denied. Sadly, the 16-year-old’s story is not an outlier: According to the country’s police data, 81 women were killed in domestic violence incidents this past May.

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