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Maat Foundation issues a report that monitors the high rates of violence against women in Turkey

Aqil: The Turkish regime is responsible for the high rates of violence against women in Turkey

Sherif Abdel Hamid: The Turkish authorities have arrested 18 thousand women after the alleged coup attempt

Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights issued a report entitled “Racist Policies: Rising Violence Against Women in Turkey”, which dealt with the escalation of the phenomenon of violence against women, which has doubled with the spread of the Corona epidemic, and the report attributed this matter to the escalation of the Turkish government's negative media discourse towards women alongside The practices of the security services and judicial institutions of the Public Prosecution Office and judges, which contributed to overlooking the problem and the increase in crimes of violence against women, especially domestic violence. The report emphasized that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's speech on equality between women and men in which he considered that women are not equal with The man has contributed to the increase of violent crimes against women by deepening the prevailing stereotypes against women and the negative perception of their role in society.

The report indicated that Turkey ranks 130th out of 153 countries in the gender equality index for the year 2020, not to mention the low rates of wages and education rates compared to men, which contributed mainly to the increase in the rates of violence against women in society, and the report stated that a total of 1 015,337 incidents of violence against women occurred during the period from 2014 to 2019, which led to the death of 1,890 women in addition to the death of 94 under the protection system, according to the data of the Turkish Ministry of the Interior, while civil society organizations monitored twice this number of deaths in The ranks of women as a result of violence practiced against them, as 2248 deaths were recorded during the same period.

Ayman Aqil, head of the Maat Foundation, attributed the high rates of violence against women in Turkey to many reasons, including that the government's efforts to limit the phenomenon relate to the approval of policies and laws, without the presence of real practices and efforts on the ground to reduce the phenomenon, and Aqeel added that tolerating hostile speeches For women who perpetuate more violence against them, the existence of a set of laws to protect women from domestic violence does not mean their protection unless there are actual practices by the Turkish government to reduce the phenomenon, as formal change must be followed by a set of effective and applicable policies.

Aqil pointed out that the miserable situation of women's rights in Turkey is only a result of the practices of the current regime, which views women with an inferior view, and this was evident in the statements of the Turkish President on more than one occasion that there is no equality between men and women and that this is contrary to Of human nature, as the Turkish president described women who are not mothers as "imperfections." Before that, he had urged mothers to have at least three children, and considered birth control a "betrayal." This indicates the ruling policy mentality of Turkey towards women.

For his part, Sherif Abdul Hamid, Director of the Research and Studies Unit at the Maat Foundation, said that a large number of women in Turkey are subjected to systematic operations of abuse and persecution, especially women from minorities, and women active in the field of civil society and human rights, as the Turkish authorities take them as a purpose for all the arbitrary measures they are practicing. Since the alleged coup attempt on July 15, 2016, Abdel Hamid added that this does not mean that the conditions of women, especially minority women, and activists in civil society organizations were better off before this alleged coup.

The Director of the Research Unit stated that in the wake of the alleged coup, the Turkish government arrested tens of thousands of women, amounting to 18,000 women, including all sectors of society, from housewives to journalists, teachers, academics, doctors, professionals and businesswomen, claiming that they had links with terrorist groups without any legal basis.

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