News Center- Bianet has announced the male violence monitoring 2021 report. According to the data compiled by Bianet from the news reported in the local, national and online press in the period of January 1, 2021, and December 31, 2021, men killed at least 339 women in Turkey.

Men killed at least 20 women despite “protection” and “restraining” orders and “requests”, according to the report of Bianet. Men killed 198 women inside the house while they killed 105 women in places outside the house such as the office, hospital, forestland, traffic, and car park, the scenes of 36 femicides were not reported in the news, the report says.

More than half of the women were killed by men who were closest to them

In 2021, 209 women were killed by their husbands, fiancés, ex-husbands, and boyfriends. 31 women were killed by their family members such as fathers, sons, and grandsons. Five women were killed by sons-in-law. Three women were killed by nine male burglars who had broken into their houses, nine women were killed by nine male friends, 23 women were killed by their relatives, two women were killed by their business partners, and one woman was killed by the owner of the shop where she went for shopping, 11 women were killed by their male neighbors. The degrees of relationship between at least 38 women and the men who killed them were not reported in the press.

According to Bianet, four police officers and two village guards were among the men who killed women. Men killed 58 women because “they wanted to break up” and “did not accept their marriage proposal” while they killed 20 women “out of jealousy” and killed 26 women because “they did not let them marry who they wanted, did not let their daughters marry them, did not turn off the music, wanted to prevent them from making noise.” Men killed six women to mug them while they killed four women in alleged “honor” killing. The pretexts of men for killing 220 women were not reported in the press. In 2021, men killed 34 children, raped 96 women, forced 772 women to sex work, harassed 424 women, and abused 208 children in Turkey.