
Editorial: A slap in the face of Turkish women
It is a devastating step: Turkey is depriving women who experience violence of all protection. It strengthens the perpetrators.
editorial
Gudrun Doringer
Every day women in Turkey experience violence because they say no to their husbands. Because they disagree or decide to leave – and their husbands won’t allow them to. The number of murders of women in Turkey has doubled in the past decade. According to information from women’s rights organizations, at least 400 women were murdered by men in Turkey in the past year alone. Instead of supporting women in their self-determination, the Turkish head of state …
Accessed on March 21, 2021 at 6:35 am on https://www.sn.at/politik/weltpolitik/leitartikel-ein-schlag-ins-gesicht-der-tuerkischen-frauen-101383657