Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has summited a parliamentary investigation demanding femicides and violence against women to be investigated.

Ankara-Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) demanded to have a general meeting to prevent violence against women and femicide in the Turkish assembly was rejected with the votes of the AKP and MHP. But the HDP keeps bringing this issue to the agenda of the assembly. HDP MP Züleyha Gülüm has summited a parliamentary investigation about the increasing male violence against women, particularly during the pandemic.

HDP İstanbul MP Züleyha Gülüm points out the violence against women is on rising particularly during the pandemic. In the parliamentary investigation, Züleyha Gülüm emphasizes that the Istanbul Convention and Law No. 6284 are not effectively implemented and she states that the government has taken steps to reduce the gains of women and lift the laws.

“There is no urgent action plan”

Züleyha Gülüm also points out that there is no urgent action to prevent the increasing femicide and violence against women under pandemic conditions and says, “Women calling “ALO 183” haven’t been given adequate and correct information and sometimes women face arbitrary practices supposedly due to system density. I demand an investigation to be carried out to provide effective social assistance to women in order to eliminate the poverty of women caused by the pandemic and economic crisis, to take legal and criminal measures to eliminate the ill-treatment, discrimination, arbitrary attitude and misinformation by public officials during the applications of women facing violence, to provide safe and empowering environments where women can stay together and meet their needs, to produce real and lasting solutions against male violence against women by fully and effectively implementing the Istanbul Convention and Law No. 6284, to ensure women's safe living conditions and access to mechanisms that empower women.”