TURKISH and Kurdish Community Solidarity Centre (DAY-MER) women’s commission in London published a press release on the Istanbul Convention.
The statement titled ‘Make Istanbul Contract Alive’ is as follows: “The Responsibility of the Murders of Women is the AKP Government. For years around the world; we advocate and defend life freedom, peace and labour. The AKP government, which today legitimizes child and misogyny, is trying to destroy the gains that women have achieved through struggle, solidarity and resistance. From the day the pandemic started; the closure of women’s institutions that are needed more than ever, when violence and murders increase; It is another example of the isolation of women who want to be done with the absence of any mechanisms for women to apply and the detention of women working in institutions.
The “male-dominated policies” of the 18-year AKP government have strengthened masculinity and thus males, so much so that the word “NO” is intolerable for them. A woman, who wants to end her relationship, pays her price with her life. Because women; Must be a mother, give birth to three children, not work, marry at the age of 15. All this is a systematic process that increases women’s murders. Now, the government is discussing the cancellation of the Istanbul Convention, which was signed in 2011 and entered into force a year later but was not fully implemented, and the law on the protection of women numbered 6284, instead of saying, “What should we do, how should we stop it?”…
If the Istanbul Convention is implemented correctly, it can save the lives of many women and children. Usurping the will of the people, against the masculinity of politics and the system; we will continue to voice our demands for equality, peace and freedom at the highest level. Question perpetrators of violence, abuse and rape, not Women. Question gangs that are war and fighting, not those who want peace. Long live women’s solidarity! ”
