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Ayşe Tuba had filed a criminal complaint 23 times about the man who killed her. However, nobody heard her voice. Ayşe was killed in the street after being attacked. The state ignored her complaints is now protecting those who ignored her voice. “Yes, the killer has been sentenced to prison. But Ayşe could be alive now. Those responsible for this incident haven’t been tried. Why haven’t they been tried, because the state’s fault would be revealed,” says lawyer Heval Yıldız Karasu.

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13:51

Covid-19 pandemic increases the workloads of healthcare workers in Turkey, like all around the world. Healthcare workers have faced both cases and violence against them and they have also lived on the breadline. Fadime Kavak, the chairperson of the Social Services and Health Workers' Union (SES) Şişli Branch, talks about their demands saying, “We are exhausted.”

11:48

“We need to link our arms more and form more long chains. We all have to embrace each other with our best intentions, revealing our most peaceful sides. Otherwise darkness will not really reach light. Love will not live as it deserve.”

11:45

“People live with feelings of loneliness. Whatever women do, they cannot escape violence and death. So in such injustice and immoral period, we are struggling and we are alone. These may increase the sense of death rather than the sense of life. For this reason, unfortunately, suicides can continue to increase,” says Therapist Sevgi Türkmen.

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15:28

Every day we read news about violence against women. A woman stabbed her husband, forcing her daughter to be with men for money in İstanbul. In Adana, a man called the police and said, “I shot my wife.” Elif Keskin has been missing for 11 days in Ankara.

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15:25

It is stated that the most important cause of traumas is the interventions causing shock to the social texture. According to sociologist Ruken Ergüneş Özdemir, the ruling power is playing with the texture that will cause serious decays and explosions in the society. “The ruling power doesn’t want the society to be good,” Ruken says the solution is common life.

09:55

Abortion is a worldwide matter that mostly talked about by men and used as a means of pressure on women. How has abortion been discussed in Turkey? And how has it become a state policy?

09:10

15:33

“He always restored to violence in order to cover his guilt. First, he beat me and then raped me,” says Elif who was forced into marriage by her father when she was 15 years old. She was subjected to sexual, physical, and psychological violence and she was stabbed 28 times by her ex-husband when she wanted a divorce. Elif states that her ex-husband was released from prison within the scope of the amendments of the Law on the Execution of Sentences in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Elif says she has lived in fear.

14:14

As women are organized, they become active in their own lives. When women earn income and control over their earnings and this strengthens their sense of independence.

13:56

“It would be naïve to say or think what is presented to us by television like a pill was coincidental. When we watch the television consciously, we are faced with the fact that television is a device that reinforces the roles of women in social life.”

11:41

The life of “Refugees” or “displaced people” is not easy as people think… First, they were called “visitors” in Turkey and then as “People under Temporary Protection Status”. The social gender roles, religious and cultural factors we grew up in and their male advocators sometimes can be an obstacle to the lives built by women, particularly by refugee women. A report entitled, “Syrian Women Empowerment Project” prepared by the Women's Solidarity Foundation shows this fact again. In the report, there are stories of women who faced violence both in Syria and Turkey.

10:39

Turkey is one of the most affected countries by the Syrian civil war; it has hosted mass migration since the war began. Ayselin Yıldız, who has been working on the migration theme for 14 years at Yaşar University, explains the adaptation process with refugees in our country and says, “If we use the funds and grants only for Syrian refugees, if you don’t include our own citizens in this economic crisis atmosphere, the adaptation process is doomed to remain on paper only.”

10:09

Fatma Işık Kaya has a disease known as Night blindness “nyctalopia” resulting in complete loss of her vision over time. In high school, her illness progressed and she isolated herself from world for a while. With the support of her father, she began to take an interest in art and held on to life. Visually impaired Fatma works on music and paints and participates in exhibitions. Saying that she will keep painting until the end of her life, Fatma says, “I lost my two eyes, but I have realized that I have ten eyes thanks to my fingers.”

08:04

Ongoing quarantine and social isolation have increased violence against women and increased the women’s burden, an endless cycle of cooking, cleaning and care at home. In this period, women have been taken away from working life and they have remained unprotected more against gender-based discrimination, violence and femicide. It seems that women have been also paying the social and economic costs of the pandemic.

18:26

During the pandemic, women have difficulty to buy hygiene products. The women have to remove feminine hygiene products from their shopping lists in order to pay the house rent and to buy essential nutrients. The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) MP Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit has announced that women have used traditional materials instead of feminine hygiene products and she has proposed a bill of law by demanding that all feminine hygiene products should be free.