Thousands of Kurdish women took to the streets
Thousands of Kurdish women took to the streets
Kurdish women took to the streets on International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
Thousands of Kurdish women took to the streets to commemorate International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on 25 November. Turkish police attacked women demonstrators in Batman while the other demonstrations ended peacefully in Kurdish region.
In Batman three hundred women participated in the demonstration to protest violence against women on Thursday. As the demonstrators began to march they faced Turkish police’s attack with truncheons and gas bombs. Several women were wounded during the attack.
Kurdish women also held demonstrations in Diyarbakir, Sirnak, Uludere, Hakkari and various cities.
The Ankara Women Platform submitted a file to the Prime Minister on the Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The platform criticized the Minister for Women and Family Affairs, Selma Aliye Kavaf, and other officials for remaining silent on the problem of violence against women and demanded urgent measures. Subsequent to a protest march through the capital of Ankara, the women issued a press release, saying, "We are living in a country where three women are killed per day on average and where women murders have increased by 1,400 percent over the past seven years".
Members of the Istanbul Feminist Collective went to the streets as well to draw attention to the high number of women murders. They organized a demonstration in the scope of their campaign "We revolt against women murders". They shouted slogans such as "Male affections kills three women every day! The murderers are in our houses".
Thousands of Kurdish women took to the streets to commemorate International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on 25 November. Turkish police attacked women demonstrators in Batman while the other demonstrations ended peacefully in Kurdish region.
In Batman three hundred women participated in the demonstration to protest violence against women on Thursday. As the demonstrators began to march they faced Turkish police’s attack with truncheons and gas bombs. Several women were wounded during the attack.
Kurdish women also held demonstrations in Diyarbakir, Sirnak, Uludere, Hakkari and various cities.
The Ankara Women Platform submitted a file to the Prime Minister on the Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The platform criticized the Minister for Women and Family Affairs, Selma Aliye Kavaf, and other officials for remaining silent on the problem of violence against women and demanded urgent measures. Subsequent to a protest march through the capital of Ankara, the women issued a press release, saying, "We are living in a country where three women are killed per day on average and where women murders have increased by 1,400 percent over the past seven years".
Members of the Istanbul Feminist Collective went to the streets as well to draw attention to the high number of women murders. They organized a demonstration in the scope of their campaign "We revolt against women murders". They shouted slogans such as "Male affections kills three women every day! The murderers are in our houses".
