Family and Social Policy Minister Fatma Þahin called it a “present to all the women of our country." Something which sounded quite out of tunes considering that a woman was being murdered on Women's Day. The "present" was the new law adopted by the parliament to address the issue of violence against women.

The draft law includes electronic monitoring of known abusers to prevent violence against women. Women's rights groups have come out against the bill saying there are changes to which they did not agree. Furthermore critics of the law say it lack many things.

Deputies from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) say the law puts too much importance on the family and that the state must protect women as individuals, not only as part of a family. Both CHP and Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) deputies proposed that the term “societal equality” replace “gender equality,” demanding that sexual minorities also be able to benefit from the law. All opposition party proposals were rejected.