On International Women’s Day, in a joint statement by the Atatürk Society UK (ASUK) and Atatürk World Platform(AWP) Chairwoman Jale Ozer, look over this history of Turkish women and the changes and difficulties women have faced thought out time in Turkey.
“ The number of women and children who are harassed at home, at work or at school has increased tremendously in recent years. The first way to create an unconscious society is to block the way of women’s education; It is the creation of conditions in which education cannot be given. This is the beginning of the goal of bringing society back to the darkness of the Middle Ages, especially by leaving the girls behind from education. Because women are the core of a society. Children, who are the future of societies, receive their first education from their mothers…”
Evaluating Turkey today Ozer said: “Turkey ranked 130th out of 153 countries in the World Economic Forum’s 2020 Global Gender Inequality Index. According to the data of the We Will Stop Femicide Platform, 280 femicides and 217 suspicious female deaths were detected in 2021. Instead of the mentality that killing a woman is shameful, the Istanbul Convention should be put into practice again and the law numbered 6284 should be implemented!”
“Our Great Leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk said, “A community, a nation consists of two different genders, male and female. It is impossible for a nation to develop as a whole without developing one part and developing the other part. Is it possible for the other half to rise to the skies as half of a society remains chained to the land? His word should be the target of our struggle.
“The struggles of Kara Fatmas, Ayşe Hanımlar, Hatice Hatunlar, Asker Saime Hanım, and many more heroic Anatolian women, Republic women such as Bahriye Üçok and Türkan Saylan, who sacrificed their lives and children for the sake of the country while fighting at the front in the War of Independence, should always be remembered and their struggles should be remembered today. It should never be forgotten that it exists.
“With this awareness, as ADDP, we celebrate the International Working Women’s Day of our Republican women with all our associations. It is worthy of us, who grew up benefiting from the blessings of the Republic, not to follow this course, but to fight with men and women in order to take the rights that were once set an example in the world and take them further.”
