**Rise of femicide follows country’s 2021 withdrawal from Council of Europe convention on preventing violence against women**
Seven women were killed by their partners or ex-partners across Turkey on Tuesday, according to the television station Habertürk.
“In total, seven women were savagely killed in İzmir, Bursa, Sakarya, Erzurum, Denizli and Istanbul,” Habertürk reported, listing the country’s major cities.
“The suspects were either their current spouses, or spouses from whom they were separated,” said the broadcaster, which listed the names of the victims with their photographs on its website.
The women, aged between 32 and 49, were shot or stabbed to death. At least three of the assailants took their own lives, two were arrested and one who was wounded while being detained later died.
The fate of the seventh, who had escaped prison to kill his wife, remains unclear.
In 2023, the women’s rights NGO We Will Stop Femicide recorded 315 murders of women, 65% of whom were killed in their own homes. An additional 248 cases of “suspicious deaths”, described as “suicide” by authorities, have been attributed to a third party by feminist groups.
A lawsuit filed against We Will Stop Femicide by the Istanbul prosecutor in 2022 over alleged “immoral activities” was dropped last September.
The country withdrew in 2021 from the Istanbul Convention, the Council of Europe convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence which requires authorities to investigate and punish violence against women.
“In 15 years, the only year when the number of femicides decreased was in 2011, the year which the Istanbul Convention was adopted,” the NGO said.
Once i’ve seen a website, counting all the femicides in turkey. Does anybody know it? It was powerful, yet so sad, and frustrating.
Does it have to do with the fact that most of these ideas (like blood feud / vengeance / family honour etc) are islamic ideas? And Turkey is…semi-islamic?
News; low iq stoneage idiots do low iq stoneage idiot things?
We shouldn’t expect better. Sadly.
May the women rest in peace and Turkeys eastern radical Muslim population accept education and modernization.
Exs had a very good reason why they were exs it seems
What is funny is that a country like Iraq, where tribal crimes are widespread and is much more conservative, has a lower spousal killing rate than Turkey.
Is it a coincidence?
Reminds me of that Turkish movie “MUSTANG” – perfectly made yet incredibly sad. I was thinking about it for a week after I saw it 🥹😥
Highly recommend
Ah yes islam showing it’s superior values once again.
My boyfriend did a job in Erzurum once, he told me about it a couple of times. From what he told me I’m not surprised to see it represented here, place is backwards as hell.
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**Rise of femicide follows country’s 2021 withdrawal from Council of Europe convention on preventing violence against women**
Seven women were killed by their partners or ex-partners across Turkey on Tuesday, according to the television station Habertürk.
“In total, seven women were savagely killed in İzmir, Bursa, Sakarya, Erzurum, Denizli and Istanbul,” Habertürk reported, listing the country’s major cities.
“The suspects were either their current spouses, or spouses from whom they were separated,” said the broadcaster, which listed the names of the victims with their photographs on its website.
The women, aged between 32 and 49, were shot or stabbed to death. At least three of the assailants took their own lives, two were arrested and one who was wounded while being detained later died.
The fate of the seventh, who had escaped prison to kill his wife, remains unclear.
In 2023, the women’s rights NGO We Will Stop Femicide recorded 315 murders of women, 65% of whom were killed in their own homes. An additional 248 cases of “suspicious deaths”, described as “suicide” by authorities, have been attributed to a third party by feminist groups.
A lawsuit filed against We Will Stop Femicide by the Istanbul prosecutor in 2022 over alleged “immoral activities” was dropped last September.
The country withdrew in 2021 from the Istanbul Convention, the Council of Europe convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence which requires authorities to investigate and punish violence against women.
“In 15 years, the only year when the number of femicides decreased was in 2011, the year which the Istanbul Convention was adopted,” the NGO said.
Once i’ve seen a website, counting all the femicides in turkey. Does anybody know it? It was powerful, yet so sad, and frustrating.
Does it have to do with the fact that most of these ideas (like blood feud / vengeance / family honour etc) are islamic ideas? And Turkey is…semi-islamic?
News; low iq stoneage idiots do low iq stoneage idiot things?
We shouldn’t expect better. Sadly.
May the women rest in peace and Turkeys eastern radical Muslim population accept education and modernization.
Exs had a very good reason why they were exs it seems
What is funny is that a country like Iraq, where tribal crimes are widespread and is much more conservative, has a lower spousal killing rate than Turkey.
Is it a coincidence?
Reminds me of that Turkish movie “MUSTANG” – perfectly made yet incredibly sad. I was thinking about it for a week after I saw it 🥹😥
Highly recommend
Ah yes islam showing it’s superior values once again.
My boyfriend did a job in Erzurum once, he told me about it a couple of times. From what he told me I’m not surprised to see it represented here, place is backwards as hell.