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National Campaigns
August 9, 2021

We call the Secretary General to reject the withdrawal notification by the government given the fact that such withdrawal has been brought to the court under unconstitutionality claim.

As WWHR, Mor Çatı Women’s Shelter Foundation and Kaos GL we have drafted and sent a letter to the CoE Secretary General on 23.03.2021 to give information on the current legal situation and invite CoE to reject Turkey’s withdrawal notification which is manifestly unconstitutional.We are sharing some highlights from the letter and reiterate our urgent call for action to reverse this decision. (Turkish / English)
National Campaigns
December 25, 2020

We Stand with Women Calling Out Sexual Harassment!

With women in the literary sector recently taking to social media to call out sexual harassment they have faced, cases of men sexually harassing women in different lines of work have also started surfacing. Available here is our statement, in which we advocate for a shifting of the burden of proof from the victim to the perpetrator taking women’s claims as a basis for future action, and stand by women raising their voices against harassment despite all kinds of pressure they face. Our social media visuals may be found here.
GenelNational Campaigns
January 23, 2020

No to Amnesty for Child Sexual Abuse!  

The opinion of the TCK (Turkish Penal Code – TPC) 103 Women’s Platform and Women’s Platform on Alimony Rights – both of which we are a member organization of – on the covert amnesty being offered to perpetrators of child sexual abuse under the guise of a supposed sentence reduction
GenelNational Campaigns
October 23, 2019

We Shall Not Stand Back and Allow for a Rollback of Women’s and Children’s Rights Under the Pretext of ‘Judicial Reform’! We Call for an Immediate Termination of All Plans to Legitimize Child Sexual Abuse and Provide Amnesty to Rapists!

Joint statement objecting to a clause rumored to be part of the Second Judicial Reform Package allowing the postponement of the execution of sentences for perpetrators of child sexual abuse on condition that they marry the children they have exploited