Taking to the Streets on 8 March International Women’s Day against Poverty, War and All Forms of Violence!
7 March 2022
Our pens fall short of listing violations against women in Turkey on yet another 8 March! We intensely feel violence, poverty, war, economic crisis in our lives. Those who should have been developing solutions become perpetrators, laws are not implemented, women’s achievements are destroyed, wars escalate in the midst of poverty and crises.
Streets, cities, homes, hospitals, institutions, workplaces… Women have no safe space left. We are killed in the streets, households are full of violence and poverty, fridges are empty.
Many women like Aysel Tuğluk are subjected to torture in being incarcerated even if their health conditions are too poor to be held in prisons. Health conditions of sick women prisoners are used again as an element of torture. Even the most fundamental human rights are disregarded.
Garibe Gezer lost her life under suspicious circumstances in prison where she had been subjected to sexual violence and torture.
Deniz Poyraz was killed in a murder waiting to happen.
Gülistan Doku has been missing for the last two years.
Following the murder of Şule Çet, many women were murdered in a similar way.
Impunity continues to encourage potential perpetrators.
While femicide has become ISIS-ized, authorities keep on protecting the perpetrators.
The LGBTI+ are being murdered in hate crimes having been targeted by public officials.
Our workplaces are full of discrimination, sexism and mobbing!
The political power has been trying to destroy our hard-won rights, conventions, the right to alimony by creating victimizations. We remind the political power, which brought into question the right to alimony for men allegedly suffering from “victimization” by alimony that they do not even pay, of its obligation to protect women’s lives and their domestic labor.
We, as women, keep on fighting poverty, violence, and war.
We do not recognize Turkey’s withdrawal from the İstanbul Convention.
We refuse to accept both support for war and support for policies of war neither in Turkey nor in Syria, in Ukraine, anywhere in the world!
While the economic crisis has been turning poverty to hunger, while refugee women have been facing discrimination, violence and poverty, the only word we will accept in the face of wars at our elbow is PEACE.
Women from İHD