Yeşim Oruç

 

NEWS CENTER - According to the violence tally for August, 28 women and 5 children were murdered, 25 women and 7 children died suspiciously.

 

Women are not protected, perpetrators are encouraged. While massacres of women continue systematically in Turkey and Kurdistan, complaints are ignored and protection orders are not implemented. The sexist rhetoric of the government, the negligence of the military or police and the impunity policy of the judiciary make the murder of women commonplace. Women are most often murdered in their homes, by those closest to them. Despite all this darkness, women do not give up their right to life and their struggle; they raise their voices for justice and equality stronger every day.

 

According to the data compiled by our agency, 28 women and 5 children were murdered in August, 25 women and 7 children died in suspicious circumstances.

 

The perpetrator is the closest

 

2 women were murdered by their sons, 4 women were murdered by unknown perpetrators, 4 women were in the process of divorce, 12 women were murdered by their husbands, 3 women were murdered by their intimate partners, 1 woman was murdered by her employer, 1 woman was murdered by the man she divorced, 1 woman was murdered by someone she knew, 1 woman was murdered by her relatives. 

 

Provinces where women were murdered

 

2 women were murdered in Adana, 1 in Antalya, 1 in Trabzon, 2 in Denizli, 1 in Karabük, 1 in Edirne, 1 in Ankara, 1 in Isparta, 1 in Balıkesir, 1 in Mêrdîn, 1 in Kayseri, 1 in Mersin, 2 in Muğla, 2 in Riha, 1 in Istanbul, 2 in Amed, 2 in Aydın, 1 in Agirî, 1 in Konya, 1 in Kocaeli, 1 in Dîlok and 1 in Bursa.