Free Women’s Movement (Tevgera Jinên Azad, TJA) activists and Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Women's Council held a press conference in front of HDP’s Provincial Organization in Amed (Diyarbakir) to protest the incident in Gercüş district of Batman where a child was raped and two women were forced into prostitution, which involves Turkish specialist sergeants and police officers. Activists carried the banner "We expose male state violence" as TJA activist Bahar Karataş Uluğ read out the statement.

TRANSGRESSIONS OF TURKISH AUTHORITIES

Reminding the case of İpek Er who was raped by Turkish specialist sergeant Musa Orhan and led to suicide, and the sexual assault of specialist sergeant Aslan A. against a 13-year-old child in Şırnak, Karataş stated that the perpetrators remained unpunished. She stressed that every crime committed in Kurdistan was acquitted through the statements of the civilian authorities and was absolved from guilt through the judiciary.

"These incidents, which appear as a part of special war policies, appear as the enemy law taking revenge on the body of women and children, discrediting, depersonalizing by removing social value judgments and imposing an immoral life for those they could not kill or lead to suicide. The authorities’ efforts to approve child marriages are constantly on the agenda, the law of marriage with the rapist has been discussed for a long time, and the imposed concept of honor encourage men and result in increase in the crimes against children", Karataş said.

CALL FOR ACTION

Stating that similar dirty methods have been applied since the 1990s, Karataş said that dirty policies will only make social opposition stronger and strengthen the struggle. She called on all democrats, intellectuals, artists, writers and non-governmental organizations to take action, and added:

"We, as TJA and HDP Women's Council, will follow up the process together with all other women's institutions with all our dynamics, and we will continue to fight and ensure the exposure of every incident until the dirty policies against women and children are brought to an end, until those responsible are judged and punished."

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