Alarming statistics of violence and murder of women in Türkiye

According to the international group Tasnim News Agency, in the Turkish municipal elections, a significant number of Women in different cities and regions were voted by the people and elected as mayors. But in parallel with this noteworthy and important situation, another news was published that shows that violence against women continues throughout Turkey and has become exponential.

For a long time, the issue of violence against women , has been one of Turkey’s social-cultural Achilles heel and this issue still remains unresolved. Beatings, physical punishment, very violent attacks using hot and cold weapons and all kinds of other examples and examples of violence have increased, and this issue has worried social damage experts.

Application for women: reach my dad
Without a doubt, Turkey is a beautiful country and the charming landscapes of nature and cities and villages of this The country has caused Turkey to remain in the list of the top 10 countries in the world’s tourism industry for a long time, and millions of people travel to Turkey every year to see beautiful landscapes and eat delicious food. Foreign citizens have agreed to buy property in Turkey. So far, several TV series and dozens of movies have been exported to different countries of the world to show beautiful pictures from Turkey. But maybe few people can believe that under the skin of all these beautiful and stunning images, there lives a society in which violence against women and children is considered a very pervasive and widespread problem. It is so widespread that the Ministry of Interior of Turkey is forced to order a special application to deal with the violent and dangerous behavior of men against women.

The official program “combating violence and abuse against women and children” with the abbreviation KADES It is a title for a famous and well-known application that can be installed on the ear of a mobile phone and when a woman faces violence, she can get help from the police force by just pressing a button.

This It is an emergency response plan commissioned by the Turkish Ministry of Interior for the General Directorate of Police Security and is the first thing women can think of in an emergency.

Women victims of violence can open the location information of the device in case of emergency and get easy access to 155 police emergency. The emergency call center is dispatched and intervened immediately by clicking a button or patrolling near the scene.

This program has been activated since 2018 and has been downloaded by a large number of women. The units for combating domestic violence and violence against women in the center and provinces go to help women within 5 minutes. and in the first year alone, 5 thousand 517 shelter measures were carried out for women and their accompanying children.

Only in 2023, the number of notifications made through KADES reached 400,419. According to the data, 1,097 women per day and an average of 45 women per hour reported violence. Such a thing means that every 1.5 minutes a woman was subjected to violence.

Dr. Dr. Ghamze Ak Gosh Ilgazdi, the deputy leader of the People’s Republic Party, announced that the frightening dimensions of violence against women in Turkey are worrying.

Ilgzadi stressed that these significant figures show that violence against women is an urgent problem and precautionary measures should be taken quickly. Ilgazdi believes that the withdrawal of the Turkish government from the Istanbul Convention has caused an increase in violence against women. >
Official statistics show that during the two years of 2022 and 2023, at least 1 thousand and 52 women were killed and the manner of death of 805 other women is also suspicious and there is a suspicion of murder about them. .

Women activists believe that Turkey has no legal loophole to deal with violence against women and Law No. 6284 is sufficient to prevent violence against women. But the problem here is that it has not been fully implemented.

One of the most important problems of Turkish society in the field of violence against women is that many judges of the courts, in the case of men who have committed violence against women, have given sentences.

In the Turkish government, there is a ministry called Family and Social Security, and usually this post is entrusted to a female minister, but the fact is that the said ministry, in the fields of education and Law has not done anything special to prevent the continuation of violence. >
The production of TV series in Turkey has become a huge market of several hundred million dollars and currently, at least 55 series production groups are operating in Turkey. Even important international giants such as Netflix have representatives in Turkey and have produced more than 11 series in this country.

Turkish series are quickly dubbed into different languages ​​and exported to countries around the world. The interesting point is that the common denominator of most Turkish TV series is the use of beautiful actresses who do not have significant acting talent, but their role in a long-drawn love story based on betrayal, triangular relationships and emotional scenes, customer

Incidentally, this issue has drawn the attention of women’s rights activists and so far many research articles have been published that strongly complain about TV channels and serial directors.

In a special report, the Yeni Akit newspaper pointed out that it is necessary for TV series with scenes encouraging secret sex to be warned by the authorities.

This newspaper quoted family psychologist Adnan Kalkan. , has announced that in most series, violence and relationships outside the moral framework, in addition to destroying the dignity of women, in the continuation of the story, the violence of the revengeful man against the guilty woman appears completely legitimate and normal, and as a result, the audience also He finds out that he has to beat women.

Also, Ms. Sholeh Parmak, a writer in the field of religion and theology, referring to the influence of television series on violence against women, said: “Our series are full of scenes of drug use, drinking alcohol, and attacks on women. Repeated emphasis on spouses’ betrayal of each other, followed by revenge and violence, normalizes all these dark and bitter events, and this is dangerous for our society. Any violence against women is unacceptable and all forms of violence must be stopped”. /Image/1403/01/17/1403011715411016729754234.png”/>
Ali Ehsan Karahasnoglu, the writer of Akit newspaper, also emphasized in his article entitled “Immoral TV series, the cause of violence against women”: “TV series are violence make it normal and millions of viewers follow the example of these scenes”.

Instrumental use of women, vulgar and unnecessary emphasis on the false belief of women’s infidelity, showing women as a seductive and treacherous element that cannot be trusted, justifying men’s violent revenge, exaggerated zoom on scenes Harshly attacking a woman and killing or injuring her as an example of normalizing violence is one of the most important criticisms of women activists in Turkey.

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