In Turkey, the state is oppressing and subjugating women as well as those in the LGBTQ+ community.
, both groups have become targets as the regime moved to silence all critics. Hundreds of thousands of people who have criticized the government have been stigmatized as terrorists, dismissed from their jobs, arbitrarily jailed. Their properties have been seized, passports were confiscated.r the State of Emergency decrees is 23,202, which corresponds to 17.3% of the total dismissed
There is also Mother Taybet, a Kurdish woman, killed when a sniper shot her on the street. Her body stayed on the streets for days because of a curfew. There are thousands of other women who have been facing state-led and state-sanctioned oppression and violence. According to the organization “We Will Stop Femicide,” based in Turkey, since President Erdogan withdrew the country from the Istanbul Convention, violence against women has increased. The Istanbul Convention recognized violence against women as a violation of human rights and a form of discrimination against women.
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