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First sacrificed people: women
Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention by a Presidential decree sparked outrages. The articles of the convention on the protection and restraining orders are very important to protect women from abusive persons. The number of killed women despite all protection and restraining orders has been increasing especially after Turkey’s withdrawal decision. Women have been killed despite restraining orders. Women, who demand to be protected, have been left alone against violence and sacrificed in this way. The state, which withdrew from the Istanbul Convention, has announced the number of femicides saying women lost their lives instead of “women were killed”. Femicides, suspicious women deaths never become an important issue for the government. In our article series, we write the stories of killed women despite restraining orders and women, who had to kill to not be killed.
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Politics/Male, Judiciary/Male, Perpetrator/Male: 6. 759 women killed in Turkey in 18 years -3
“The government should resign for not be able to prevent femicides” The perpetrators are encouraged by both the speeches and the practices of the government. The killers have defended themselves by showing the government’s speeches and practices as references in courtrooms. “How do the AKP's women's policies shape the country?” we asked to Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Diyarbakır MP Remziye Tosun. “The government should resign for not be able to prevent femicides,” she said.
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Politics/Male, Judiciary/Male, Perpetrator/Male: 6. 759 women killed in Turkey in 18 years -2
Patriarchal order feeds inequality Women living in Mardin, Batman, Siirt, and Urfa pointed out the problems they have faced in these cities and emphasized that the patriarchal order feeds inequality. They told us that they will keep struggling against the increasing femicide rate, suspicious deaths of women disguised as suicide, and special war policies in the region.
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Politics / Male, Judiciary / Male, Perpetrator / Male: 6. 759 women killed in Turkey in 18 years -1
At least 6.759 women were killed in the AKP's 18 years. The number of femicides increases day by day. However, no step has been taken to stop femicides. Protections orders only remain on documents. No effective investigations have been carried out while the suspicious deaths of women have been increased. Moreover, Turkey withdrew from the Istanbul Convention protecting women. The ruling party causes women to become the targets with its policies. There is the systematic killing of women in Turkey and it is gendercide! In this article file, we draw attention to femicides in Turkey and male violence, particularly in Kurdish cities. In the first article, we summarize what happened in Turkey. In the second and third articles, we try to explain the dimension of violations of the right to life for women in cities such as Diyarbakır, Mardin and Batman.
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Anfal Genocide and those left behind: The clearest form of genocide-3
Atiye Husen Mehmud managed to escape with her children before reaching the death camps of the Ba'athist regime. “I was pregnant and had three children. My husband went to buy something for our children and he never came back,” she said, “Women of Anfal went down in history as socially and mentally very sick and helpless community.”
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