The Women's Council of the Peoples’ Democratic Party in Amed (Diyarbakır) Province has taken the Human Rights Week as an opportunity to inform about the increasingly ongoing feminicides in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan. The press conference was attended by HDP deputy Remziye Tosun, co-president of the HDP provincial association, Hülya Alökmen Uyanık and many others. The HDP building in which the press conference was to take place was sealed off by the police.

"The crisis is more severe than ever"

HDP MP Tosun stressed that human rights in Turkey are in an unprecedented crisis. She said the denial of the right to life and the violations of rights mainly concern women and children.

305 women murdered in eleven months

Tosun reported that this year was full of feminicides and rights violations. She explained that in the first eleven months of 2019 alone, according to official figures, at least 305 women were murdered and at least 46 raped. Another 204 women were abused and 556 were subjected to violence. Tosun pointed out that the official figures reveal that in reality tens of thousands of women were experiencing violence, while the actual number of murdered women is much higher.

"A human is human with his rights", said Tosun and vowed that: "Our struggle will continue without interruption".