Why violence in turkey

However, every effort, every idea, every person means a lot to us. With this understanding, we have given and continue to give the greatest support in our history to female entrepreneurs," the president said. Hopefully, we will build a strong and great Turkey together," he added. The action plan has been drafted by the Ministry of Family and Social Services in coordination with agencies working on the prevention of violence.

It includes five main goals and dozens of activities that will be accomplished in five years. Also known as economic abuse, economic violence against women is a form of violence where women have no financial autonomy. The Istanbul Convention includes economic violence in both its definitions of violence against women and domestic violence. Examples of economic violence against women include:. Economic violence is an issue many women face in Turkey. Placing women in a position where they spend so much time on unpaid work makes women likely to become dependent on male family members and susceptible to economic violence.

Social expectations and perceptions of the roles of men and women play an important part in economic violence against women in Turkey. Perceptions of women as performers of domestic work and men as laborers create an expectation for women to engage in unpaid labor, making them susceptible to economic violence.

Ending economic violence against women is critical to ending other forms of violence against women. She said that since March, women and other vulnerable groups had been more reluctant to ask for help and less likely to receive it, with COVIDfuelled economic difficulties causing a dramatic increase in violence against them.

One monitoring group has logged roughly one femicide per day in Turkey since a sharp rise five years ago. Proponents of the Convention and related legislation say more stringent implementation is needed. Some also see the Convention as promoting homosexuality through its principle of non-discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation. Ditching the pact "will not lead to any legal or practical shortcoming in the prevention of violence against women," Erdogan's office said on Tuesday to the administrative court that rejected the appeal.

This month, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatovic sent a letter to Turkey's interior and justice ministers expressing concern about a rise in homophobic language by some officials, some of which targeted the convention.