Women on the street against sexual assault, rape and violence
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From the political point of view as well as a rapist as well as an outstanding example for the rapists acquitted by the state, Uzmez embodied the main responsible forces for the violence against women. At the same time the age of getting married is planned to be lowered from 16 to 14 by a court decision which is proposed in a new bill.

01 December 2008 /International Bulletin / Issue 76

According to official figures only in Turkey 15.000 trials are started per year with the complaint of sexual assaults. One of three women faces physical violence. The real number is a lot higher, because in this country not the ones applying violence but the ones facing violence are convicted. And, the influence of feudal values and prejudices makes the great majority of the women not announcing to have faced violence.
The last example for the violence and oppression against women by the men ruling society is the release of men having raped and sexually assaulted women and girls. After the news on sexually assaults and rape and honour killings that fill the magazines' pages every day, news on honour killings and on how the state 'defends the children's rapists' followed...
In Bursa 14-year-old B.C. was sexually assaulted by 76-year-old Huseyin Uzmez. Uzmez is a writer of the newspaper Vakit which is the standard bearer of reaction and news that declares the progressive and revolutionary forces as target. In the 50ies, Uzmez had killed the journalist Ahmet Emin Yalman and by this, he had become one of the first fascist murderers in the country. Uzmez was arrested because of the claims of sexually assaults, and was put behind bars. The 4th Heavy Penalty Court of Bursa decided to acquit Uzmez at the 2nd hearing only 6 months after his detention on the basis of the report of the legal medicine of Istanbul that says that there has been "no damage of the physical and psychological health'.
The trial of Uzmez has openly exposed the reaction of right-handed forces and fascists, who in the name of defending honour, realised lynching massacres killing progressive and revolutionaries as well as Alevi labourers and who proclaimed the progressive forces as "rapists" against women. And even more, Uzmez expressed the approach of political groups whom he represents cheekily and barefacedly by joining TV programs and openly claiming that B.C. is 14 years old and that this is the legal age and that the rest is out of his interest. By that, from the political point of view as well as a rapist as well as an outstanding example for the rapists acquitted by the state, Uzmez embodied the main responsible forces for the violence against women. At the same time the age of getting married is planned to be lowered from 16 to 14 by a court decision which is proposed in a new bill. And anyway, the current laws are defending the rapists with their contents saying that these rapists don't get convicted in case they marry the victim. When the news on a person who had been sentenced before because of rape and released within short time was again arrested because of the complaint of rape and then released again as well as the news on rape one after another merged with the trial of Uzmez and the new bill, women all over the country stood up.
The Women's Platform against Violence in Izmir protested against the state defending the rapists and sent a draft to the parliament in order to make those articles change that leave violence against women without any punishment. On November 4, the Young Women of the Middle Eastern Technical University organised a march protesting against the acquittal of Uzmez and sent a letter to Vakit newspaper.
Women organisations such as the Association of Labourer Women ( EKD ) and Young Women Advocates watched the hearing of the trial continuing against Murat Karabas on November 4 who had raped and killed Pippa Bacca, who had set off in Italy to go to Israel passing Turkey to embody a message of freedom. The women organisations applied to become joint plaintiffs. The trial for which the EKD also applied to join the action was postponed to December 16.
The last and outstanding example for violence against women, however, was the police attack on different women's organisations on November 25 gathering in front of Galatasaray High School in Istanbul because of the International Day of Solidarity and Struggle against Violence against Women. The destruction of the exhibition of the women showing violence against women shows that the police, as the defender of the state, don't even accept the women discussing violence. The women protested against this attack by realising a sit-in.
The EKD founded a Women's Court of Justice on November 23. At this fictional court, violence against women was discussed under different headings such as "economical violence" and "violence in media".
As in the Ergenekon trial, with its own laws and for its own profits the state is defending the counter-guerrilla activists, the police, soldiers and mafiosis who rape women and apply violence because f.ex. they are political activists or Kurdish. It has always tried to be prevented that women organise themselves against this. An intelligence officer consciously gave the police once the advice to 'first shoot the women'. Women have started to actively interfere to this period during which rapists are released one after another and the offenders are just convicted for show.
 

 

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From the political point of view as well as a rapist as well as an outstanding example for the rapists acquitted by the state, Uzmez embodied the main responsible forces for the violence against women. At the same time the age of getting married is planned to be lowered from 16 to 14 by a court decision which is proposed in a new bill.

01 December 2008 /International Bulletin / Issue 76

According to official figures only in Turkey 15.000 trials are started per year with the complaint of sexual assaults. One of three women faces physical violence. The real number is a lot higher, because in this country not the ones applying violence but the ones facing violence are convicted. And, the influence of feudal values and prejudices makes the great majority of the women not announcing to have faced violence.
The last example for the violence and oppression against women by the men ruling society is the release of men having raped and sexually assaulted women and girls. After the news on sexually assaults and rape and honour killings that fill the magazines' pages every day, news on honour killings and on how the state 'defends the children's rapists' followed...
In Bursa 14-year-old B.C. was sexually assaulted by 76-year-old Huseyin Uzmez. Uzmez is a writer of the newspaper Vakit which is the standard bearer of reaction and news that declares the progressive and revolutionary forces as target. In the 50ies, Uzmez had killed the journalist Ahmet Emin Yalman and by this, he had become one of the first fascist murderers in the country. Uzmez was arrested because of the claims of sexually assaults, and was put behind bars. The 4th Heavy Penalty Court of Bursa decided to acquit Uzmez at the 2nd hearing only 6 months after his detention on the basis of the report of the legal medicine of Istanbul that says that there has been "no damage of the physical and psychological health'.
The trial of Uzmez has openly exposed the reaction of right-handed forces and fascists, who in the name of defending honour, realised lynching massacres killing progressive and revolutionaries as well as Alevi labourers and who proclaimed the progressive forces as "rapists" against women. And even more, Uzmez expressed the approach of political groups whom he represents cheekily and barefacedly by joining TV programs and openly claiming that B.C. is 14 years old and that this is the legal age and that the rest is out of his interest. By that, from the political point of view as well as a rapist as well as an outstanding example for the rapists acquitted by the state, Uzmez embodied the main responsible forces for the violence against women. At the same time the age of getting married is planned to be lowered from 16 to 14 by a court decision which is proposed in a new bill. And anyway, the current laws are defending the rapists with their contents saying that these rapists don't get convicted in case they marry the victim. When the news on a person who had been sentenced before because of rape and released within short time was again arrested because of the complaint of rape and then released again as well as the news on rape one after another merged with the trial of Uzmez and the new bill, women all over the country stood up.
The Women's Platform against Violence in Izmir protested against the state defending the rapists and sent a draft to the parliament in order to make those articles change that leave violence against women without any punishment. On November 4, the Young Women of the Middle Eastern Technical University organised a march protesting against the acquittal of Uzmez and sent a letter to Vakit newspaper.
Women organisations such as the Association of Labourer Women ( EKD ) and Young Women Advocates watched the hearing of the trial continuing against Murat Karabas on November 4 who had raped and killed Pippa Bacca, who had set off in Italy to go to Israel passing Turkey to embody a message of freedom. The women organisations applied to become joint plaintiffs. The trial for which the EKD also applied to join the action was postponed to December 16.
The last and outstanding example for violence against women, however, was the police attack on different women's organisations on November 25 gathering in front of Galatasaray High School in Istanbul because of the International Day of Solidarity and Struggle against Violence against Women. The destruction of the exhibition of the women showing violence against women shows that the police, as the defender of the state, don't even accept the women discussing violence. The women protested against this attack by realising a sit-in.
The EKD founded a Women's Court of Justice on November 23. At this fictional court, violence against women was discussed under different headings such as "economical violence" and "violence in media".
As in the Ergenekon trial, with its own laws and for its own profits the state is defending the counter-guerrilla activists, the police, soldiers and mafiosis who rape women and apply violence because f.ex. they are political activists or Kurdish. It has always tried to be prevented that women organise themselves against this. An intelligence officer consciously gave the police once the advice to 'first shoot the women'. Women have started to actively interfere to this period during which rapists are released one after another and the offenders are just convicted for show.