‘We will keep struggling to have İstanbul Convention implemented’

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Women's Assemblies protested in Kadıköy, İstanbul ahead of International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on November 25.

Gathering in front of the ferry port to Beşiktaş yesterday (November 22), women opened a banner that read, "We will have İstanbul Convention implemented to stop violence, impunity, suspicious deaths and feminicides."

Speaking first in the protest, Gülsüm Kav, the General Representative of the We Will Stop Femicides Platform, emphasized the importance of struggling against male violence and gender inequality:

"Everyone must be the subjects of the struggle against feminicides and violence, we must walk together to win our rights of equality. We must foster the struggle together in the face of all this inequality."

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'How much more price will we pay?'

Fidan Ataselim, the Secretary General of the Platform, also said that there was an attempt to put down a fate on women:

"They say that women have to do whatever they are told by men. Women are waging a struggle for their lives in the face of this.

"We are fighting for an equal and free life. We will keep struggling for the right to life of all women. Four women are massacred every day and we say 'Enough is enough' to this. Women are killed with their children, enough is enough. How much more price will we pay in this land?"

'We still ask: "Where is Gülistan Doku?"'

Ataselim also reminded the crowd that protection orders were found in the bags of killed women: "There is a deal among men. We will break this deal together. The political power is behind the men who give strength to those killing and doing away with women. They cannot prevent feminicides; suspicious deaths of women have increased. They do not address this issue.

"The unidentified feminicides are at the door. We are still asking, 'Where is Gülistan Doku?' Can those with all this power and means at their disposal not find out where a woman is? They can of course find it, but they do not. We will also be the ones who will reveal it. We will keep on struggling to have the İstanbul Convention implemented."

The protest ended with slogans. (RT/SD)