Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women Program.
In his speech, Erdoğan made the next remarks:
“I want this system we performed on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, acknowledged by the United Nations for twenty-four years, on November 25, to be helpful. In our nation, quite a few occasions are organized inside this framework each November 25. Our aim is to make sure that each particular person in our nation, each women and men, is aware of violence towards ladies of their private lives and in society. Thankfully, Türkiye has reached an unprecedented stage on this regard. Despite deliberate campaigns performed by widespread media and social media to overshadow this success, our sisters, particularly, know the reality very properly.
As a state, we have now made combating violence towards ladies a elementary coverage. For this objective, we established the Ministry of Family and Social Services in 2011. We have demonstrated our dedication by carefully monitoring and supporting each effort of the ministry, sincerely embracing it, and actively collaborating within the battle when crucial. Some attempt to obscure the companies we offer for ladies by emphasizing the time period ‘household’ within the identify of our ministry. However, the household is the cornerstone of that colossal construction that constitutes our society, together with ladies, males, youngsters, and the aged. Without the household, the existence of a person is incomplete. We are conscious that assaults on the establishment of the household in our nation don’t have anything to do with defending ladies’s rights. The aim behind such assaults is to erode our nationwide construction, beginning with the household, and get rid of the traits that represent our folks.
A peaceable, safe household, the place members respect one another, can be our strongest protection towards violence towards ladies. It is clear {that a} relationship the place violence towards ladies or youngsters happens contradicts the essence and spirit of the household idea. I ask you, can we outline a relationship the place a lady experiences violence based mostly on mutual compassion, mercy, and respect, that are the core of the household idea? Who can declare {that a} construction the place a toddler is subjected to bodily or psychological violence is a wholesome household? Who can say that? We take into account the battle towards violence towards ladies as an integral a part of our efforts to raise and strengthen the household. In different phrases, by supporting the household, we purpose to make sure the safety of all rights of ladies, particularly in addressing the difficulty of violence.
I consider that, ranging from the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, by our prime ministry and presidency, we have now achieved a big transformation on this path with our actions. Our 2024 exercise plan, which is the subject of immediately’s assembly, is only one instance of those transformations. In the final 21 years, if we had been to record all of the reforms and laws that we have now decisively carried out, it will take hours. The most important revolution within the battle towards violence towards ladies in our nation was made in 2012 with the enactment of Law No. 6284, the Law on the Protection of Family and the Prevention of Violence Against Women.
Our withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, which had develop into a software for exploitation by marginal teams and deviant currents, had no adverse influence on ladies’s rights or our battle towards violence. The allegations circulated by sure circles haven’t any foundation or basis. Because the precise tangible instruments of the battle are the laws we have now launched into our authorized system, together with Law No. 6284, and the transformation we have now achieved within the minds. This regulation is such a big achievement that it can’t be sacrificed for speculations associated to ladies’s rights and household safety. We won’t permit these achievements to be eroded. Of course, if there are issues within the nature and implementation of the regulation or deficiencies that must be addressed, we are going to clear up them, appropriate them, and, if crucial, strengthen the weather that want reinforcement.
In line with this aim, we’re always updating our laws. In this context, immediately, we have now up to date the overall directive we printed in 2006 relating to measures to be taken towards violence and murders towards youngsters and girls with a brand new directive. I consider that the coordination board we have now established for the battle towards violence towards ladies will conduct actions befitting the Türkiye Century. Our 2024 exercise plan, shared with the general public immediately, has been ready with the contributions of our related ministries and establishments. The plan is constructed on 5 primary objectives: entry to justice and laws, coverage and coordination, protecting and preventive companies, social consciousness, and information and statistics. This plan, with its 66 sub-goals and 218 exercise titles, is a concrete expression of our robust dedication to the battle towards violence towards ladies.
Although we didn’t hear the main points of the plan collectively, we watched them on the display. Hopefully, we are going to make sure the efficient and complete implementation of the factors decided within the plan. Our nation supplies state ensures for ladies who’ve skilled violence by Women’s Shelters, Violence Prevention and Monitoring Centers (ŞÖNİM), and social service facilities working in all 81 provinces. We are laying the groundwork for our zero-tolerance precept towards violence towards ladies by coaching and seminars supplied to over 4 million people, together with public officers and residents. We proceed our efforts for a Türkiye Century with out violence. As a brother who has walked each stage of the political journey with ladies, I wish to emphasize that we have now reached as of late not by political engineering however with the nice prayers of ladies.
Whenever we entered right into a battle that served the well-being of our nation and folks, we at all times discovered the help of ladies. We repelled treacherous assaults on our lives with the help of ladies. As you already know, ladies had been within the forefront throughout the heinous coup try on July 15, resisting the coup plotters on the threat of their lives, difficult tanks, planes, and weapons that spewed demise. Women had been the main figures amongst tens of millions who resisted on the evening of July 15, defending democracy. The ladies who resisted the coup try and confronted the traitors on the forefront had been the heroes of democracy.
The battle of ladies who had been excluded from faculties, college amphitheaters, skilled
life, and public service simply due to their clothes is among the most necessary pages within the historical past of Turkish democracy. I sincerely greet the Diyarbakır moms who prompted nightmares for the terrorist group with their vigil for his or her youngsters. We can by no means repay the rights of the moms of our martyrs, the dear academics, Aybüke, and the courageous ladies who threw themselves onto the bombs to guard the youngsters of our martyrs, like Hatice Belgin.
We take satisfaction within the achievements of ladies who’ve written epics with their sweat and sacrifices, be it at dwelling, in factories, fields, or in their very own companies. We are conscious that we will overcome all types of discrimination by ladies and make their names golden letters in historical past. We have fought a decided battle towards narrow-mindedness that oppresses and humiliates ladies based mostly on custom and customs, hiding behind the pretense of preserving custom. In the upcoming interval, by persevering with our reforms, we are going to proceed to deliver our nation to the place it deserves in each space wanted. We prioritize the calls for of our ladies inside this framework.
In a rustic that excludes ladies, abandoning half of its human wealth in politics or in a program means giving up. Neither our historical past, civilization, tradition, nor our traditions permit such recklessness and injustice. With this understanding, we are saying, what’s the Türkiye Century? It would be the century of ladies. Hopefully, similar to the exams we have now given within the final 21 years, we are going to understand the imaginative and prescient of the Türkiye Century, celebrating the enjoyment of this victory with ladies. By constructing a Türkiye with out violence with the complete solidarity of ladies, younger and outdated alike, we are going to, with God’s permission, obtain it. I see the 2024 exercise plan for the battle towards violence towards ladies as a really precious step taken on this path. I sincerely consider that each one establishments of our state, together with our civil society organizations and each particular person in our nation, will present the required sensitivity in implementing the plan meticulously. As the President of Türkiye, we won’t hesitate to offer each form of help for the success of the plan. Just as we have now been with ladies of their battle for rights and justice till now, we are going to proceed to be with them sooner or later.”
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