EŞİK calls on the Turkish Assembly to meet in special session on March 9 to discuss the increasing violence against women and femicide.  

News Center- Women's Platform for Equality (Eşitlik İçin Kadın Platformu-EŞİK) has announced what the Turkish Assembly does this month for women item by item. EŞİK said, “How can we say the Parliament solve the problems of Turkey while three women are killed every day and this doesn’t become the main topic of conversation of the assembly?”

Women's Platform for Equality (Eşitlik İçin Kadın Platformu-EŞİK) has published its 5th Parliamentary Monitoring Report. In the report, EŞİK recalls that the AKP and MHP rejected the HDP’s proposal supported both by CHP and İYİ Party for organizing a special session to prevent femicide. “At least three women are killed in Turkey every day, this is now a gendercide. The Assembly should fulfill its duty; it should meet in special session to stop violence against women and femicide, it should determine a road map against violence by taking the opinion of all organizations.”

“The Assembly doesn’t work for women”

In the report, EŞİK has announced what the Turkish Assembly has done since October 1, 2020 item by item. The Parliament hasn’t fulfilled its duty to implement the Istanbul Convention, says the report. “The report prepared by the GREVIO for Turkey hasn’t been translated into Turkish and it hasn’t been discussed by the Assembly. The General Assembly has met just six times. The parties have organized six group meetings; women haven’t been mentioned in the meetings. The Committee on Equality of Opportunity for Women and Men hasn’t organized a meeting again,” says the report.

EŞİK calls on the Turkish Assembly to meet in special session on March 9 to prevent violence against women and femicide in Turkey.