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Women are killed more now than ever in Turkey.

For millions of women in Turkey, life has just become more dangerous. And that puts the future of the entire country at risk.

At least one woman is killed nearly every single day in Turkey, usually by a family member or lover, with more than 400 such “femicides” on record last year alone.

Now Turkey’s government threatens to shut down an organization that has vowed to end this cycle of violence. In doing so, the ruling AKP party stands to further stamp its Islamist ideology into the body of the once-secular Turkish Republic.

Just as domestic violence itself often evolves gradually, the government’s attack on women in Turkey has unfolded over a period of years, moving in parallel with the slow dissolve of many of the country’s secular and democratic ideals. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had barely been elected to office in 2014, when he declared , “You cannot put women and men on an equal footing,” insisting that women were primarily suited to motherhood, as dictated by Islam. Since then, he has called for a new “pious generation,” and has increased the budget of the Directorate of Religious Affairs, or Diyanet, to reach nearly 1.4 billion euros in 2021 — more than 20 times what it was when Erdogan became prime minister in 2002.

But lately, Erdogan’s efforts — both to oppress women and to promote Islamist ideology (the two often go hand-in-hand) — seem to be gaining speed.

A year ago, for instance, Erdogan withdrew from the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women, claiming it “damaged traditional Turkish family values.”

Ironically, the treaty is known as the “Istanbul Convention,” so nicknamed after Turkey became the first signatory.

Unsurprisingly, the number of femicides in the country increased dramatically soon after Erdogan’s withdrawal. That fact is known, significantly, thanks only to the data collection and activism of the We Will Stop Femicide Platform , a group that tracks and fights violence against women and, not coincidentally, is the very organization that Erdogan’s party is working to shut down.

In other words, protecting women from domestic violence may be a criminal act.

The move left many wondering whether he is leading the country into sharia rule. The criminalization of women’s rights groups along with the retreat from the Istanbul Convention may suggest he is.

What seems clear is that he is pressing harder to maintain authoritarian rule, creating an Islamist authoritarian state — one in which the rights of women are not protected. As Harvard Kennedy Center’s Erica Chenoweth and Zoe Marks wrote earlier this month in Foreign Affairs, “It is not a coincidence that women’s equality is being rolled back at the same time that authoritarianism is on the rise. Political scientists have long noted that women’s civil rights and democracy go hand in hand.

… Misogyny and authoritarianism are not just common comorbidities, but mutually reinforcing ills.”
In a subsequent interview in the Harvard Kennedy School magazine, Marks further noted, “Democracy by definition requires equal human and civil rights for citizens — including, of course, women. … [By contrast], authoritarians often rely on the overrepresentation of male power (patriarchy) — in both public and private life – to consolidate their power and chip away at crosscutting social coalitions.”

All of which does not bode well for Turkey’s future should Erdogan manage to win next year’s election, despite falling poll numbers.

Yet most of Turkey’s secular women, and those who defend their rights, believe that after 20 years, there is a good chance Erdogan can be defeated. Rising inflation and a more Westernized younger generation have cut deeply into his popularity over the past year.

Which is why, despite the crackdowns and the imposition of religious values on women and their children, champions for women’s rights continue to fight for the country’s future and the secular ideals of Kemal Ataturk, its founder. For them, Ataturk’s words remain immortal and carry their greatest hopes: “Humankind is made up of two sexes, women and men,” he once said. “Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains, the other half can soar into the skies?”

LIE!
SHUT UP AND STOP BLAMING RELIGION.

IS NIGERIA AN ISLAMIC NATION?
DO WOMEN HAVE PEACE HERE, EVERYWHERE YOU TURNED TO YOU EITHER HEAR RAPE, MURDERED BY HUSBAND/BF, BABY FACTORY MACHINES, ADOPT AND FORCE IN PROSTITUTE, TRAFFICKING , KIDNAP,OR HER HEAD, VAGINA AND BREAST ARE NO MORE..

Jeon:
LIE!
SHUT UP AND STOP BLAMING RELIGION.

IS NIGERIA AN ISLAMIC NATION?
DO WOMEN HAVE PEACE HERE, EVERYWHERE YOU TURNED TO YOU EITHER HEAR RAPE, MURDERED BY HUSBAND, KIDNAP,OR HER HEAD, VAGINA AND BREAST ARE NO MORE..

No where is safe for women and men unfortunately. However, Nigeria is still one of the safest place for women mostly because Christians make up a large population. Although Nigeria is increasingly becoming dangerous for Women because of the activities of muslims like Boko, ISWAP, and Yoruba muslims (who are the vast majority of skull miners.)

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No where is safe for women and men unfortunately. However, Nigeria is still one of the safest place for women mostly because Christians make up a large population. Although Nigeria is increasingly becoming dangerous for Women because of the activities of muslims like Boko, ISWAP, and Yoruba muslims (who are the vast majority of skull miners.)

Even ibos.
gospel singer that was killed was murdered by her Muslim husband. I believe that.
woman that was killed by husband forcing the baby to came out [also dead ] was also killed by Muslim husband, I even forgot he's a Yoruba man.
all those yahoo +Gees are mainly muslims no Christians and Igbo among them..

Mercy Samuel, was also killed by Muslim Yoruba husband by ripping off her tummy.

I love ur write up.

Jeon:


Even ibos.
gospel singer that was killed was murdered by her Muslim husband. I believe that.
woman that was killed by husband forcing the baby to came out [also dead ] was also killed by Muslim husband, I even forgot he's a Yoruba man.
all those yahoo +Gees are mainly muslims no Christians and Igbo among them..

Mercy Samuel, was also killed by Muslim Yoruba husband by ripping off her tummy.

Thousands of women are raped and killed annually by Muslims for Islam.
In Islamic countries, they commit plenty of violence and injustice against women. In Iran for example, women can bag up to 24 years imprisonment for not wearing hijab, but men can only bag up to 10 years for killing women.
In places like Pakistan, Afghanistan, it isnt uncommon for men to attack (and sometimes rape) women for not wearing hijab.

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Thousands of women are raped and killed annually by Muslims.
In Islamic countries, they commit plenty of violence and injustice against women. In Iran for example, women can bag up to 24 years imprisonment for not wearing hijab, but men can only bag up to 10 years for killing women.
In places like Pakistan, Afghanistan, it isnt uncommon for men to attack (and sometimes rape) women for not wearing hijab.

ur shitz aren't right..
again stop blaming religion on women violence.. even in America largest Christian population in the world women are still abused.


NIGERIA IS A SHITHOLE COUNTRY WHERE CHRISTIANS BLAME ISLAMS FOR EVERYTHING APART FROM THE DEATH JESUS THE MESSIAH.

Jeon:
ur shitz aren't right..

Woman sentence to 24 years imprisonment for not wearing hijab: https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/09/iran-sentences-woman-to-24-years-in-prison-for-refusal-to-wear-hijab/

Boy beat sister with baseball bat over refusal to wear veil: https://www.breitbart.com:443/europe/2018/02/19/teen-sweden-beat-sister-refused-islamic-veil/

Just two random examples for you.

An incident happened in Qatar last month (if I remember correctly) when a woman reported her rapist to the authority. Not only did they not punish the rapist, they also sentenced the victim to prison and 100 latches lashes. Luckily for her, she managed to escape the country before they could carry out the sentencing.

EDIT: Here is the link to the Qatar incidence: https://euroweeklynews.com/2022/02/18/qatar-world-cup-scandal-as-abused-woman-sentenced-to-100-lashes/
She was sentenced to 100 lashes and 7 years in prison for reporting her abuser and documenting his abuses.
Qatar's law is Islamic (sharia) law. In that case, we blame Islam for such injustice. Or what else is to be blame?

You mentioned America: Lady, there is no where in the world where women don't suffer abuses. It is what is done to the abusers afterwards that count. Women abusers are thoroughly punished in America. Sometimes, they even go overboard with their punishments.
Meanwhile in Islamic places scholars and lawyers can go on TV to advocate and encourage abuses against women and no punishments will be given to them because Islam advocates abuses against women. Of course people will blame Islam . . . or what else are they supposed to blame?