Thread by @voguvenus

a thread about what is happening to turkish women:

#İstanbulSözleşmesi
#AklınızdanBileGecirmeyin

turkey was the first country to adopt a 2011 council of europe convention on gender-based violence and domestic violence, a groundbreaking legal framework designed to protect victims and effectively prosecute offenders, known as the Istanbul Convention

#İstanbulSözleşmesi

Since then, however, even basic rights and protections won by Turkish women have come under threat as Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s conservative Justice and Development party (AKP) has tried to repeal Istanbul Convention by claiming it disrespects the religion

#IstanbulConvention

The goverment has repealed Istanbul Conevtion, which protects basic human rights of women. And now, there isn't any rights protecting women from murder related to abuse.

#İstanbulSözleşmesi
#IstanbulConvention
#AklınızdanBileGecirmeyin

according to a study made 11 years ago, 42% of turkish women aged between 15-60 had suffered some physical or sexual violence by their husbands or partners. considering that 11 years have passed since this study, the case is even worse right now.

The hashtag #istanbulsözleşmesiyaşatır (Istanbul Convention Protects Lives) has been trending for months. Please help us protect the lives of women. You can go to the website anitsayac.com to see how many women in Turkey have been murdered from gender-based violence.

Men who have murdered or raped someone and who say they acted on impulse, or who claim to be religious and dress smartly in court, are handed reduced sentences so often that there is now a term for it: “tie reduction”. And sometimes they don't even get any punishments.

Turkey has officially left
The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence aka the Istanbul Convention, by Presidential decree.

#İstanbulSözleşmesi #IstanbulConvention

You can help us by using the hashtags #İstanbulSözleşmesi #IstanbulConvention #AklınızdanBileGecirmeyin and you can read this carrd to have more info amplifyourvoice.carrd.co