Our bodies, our lives, our decisions are ours! Keep your family for yourselves!<\/b><\/p>\n
We women are in Taksim again in the twelfth year of our feminist night march! Every year, ever more women here proclaim our revolt against patriarchy, heterosexism and male violence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We women repeat today, as on every March 8! We reject the sexist division of labor and its practices at home, at work, in the street and in every area of life! Whether we work full-time at home or outside the home, we will never stop saying at every opportunity that men, who dump all housework and the burden of care on us, owe us for our unpaid labor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Since last March 8, the news of the stories of women subjected to violence and killed by men has been unending. We know that behind these stories lies a centuries-old system of male domination!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n But the AKP government, in power for eleven years, also takes steps that feed male violence through its conservative policies. The Prime Minister’s words, “I do not believe in equality between women and men,” are the very embodiment of the AKP’s view of women. The AKP shows in its rhetoric that it considers women weak and needy by their “nature.” The solutions produced by this perspective are far from preventing violence!<\/span><\/p>\n Under the veneer of increasing women’s employment, the AKP forces us both into flexible work and into bearing many children. The AKP promises us only one future: marriage.<\/span><\/p>\n The pressure to marry paves the way for women to be forcibly married as children!<\/span><\/p>\n Patriarchy and heterosexism, which are based on protecting and perpetuating the family and reduce sexuality to reproduction, strike us women twice: our sexual orientation is either disregarded or we are once again turned into objects of men’s desires and fantasies.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We revolt against the male-dominated heterosexist order that imposes the color of our identity cards as an absolute gender identity and makes us more vulnerable to sexual violence, harassment, rape, mobbing and discrimination simply because we are lesbian, bisexual or trans women.\u00a0<\/span>We see the AKP’s exclusion of LGBT people from protection when legislating on hate crimes as its declaration that it will continue to watch LGBT people being murdered.<\/span><\/p>\n By struggling against the Prime Minister, who set things in motion with the words “Every abortion is Uludere,” and the AKP government’s attempt to pass a law banning abortion, we prevented our right to abortion from being banned. But the AKP does in practice what it could not do legally. Public hospitals turn women away at their doors when they request an abortion, even within the legal ten-week period. Most recently, we saw access to abortion blocked in \u0130zmir by the removal of the abortion button.<\/span><\/p>\n Although two years have passed since Law No. 6284 was enacted to “protect women from violence,” women cannot benefit from the rights specified in the law. Despite its provision in the law, they cannot receive temporary financial aid. Children’s right to confidential school enrollment does not function as it should. Violence Prevention and Monitoring Centers (\u015e\u00d6N\u0130M) do not provide support for our needs.<\/span><\/p>\n We are removed from shelters and killed. It is said that “she left of her own accord.” We do not accept this!\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Judicial proceedings operate through male domination! Our struggle is for real justice against male justice that searches for provocation in murder and consent in rape!\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We now know that the violence we experience from our husbands, fathers, brothers and lovers is not fate! We now object to housework and care services being women’s duties! Even at the risk of death, we oppose this violence and refuse to obey men!\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This year we brought our struggle in the streets into the Gezi struggle. We resisted police violence. The anger created by the AKP’s policies brought us out into the streets. We encountered sexual harassment and rape, deployed by patriarchy as weapons of war, during detention. We know very well that the police systematically direct this male weapon especially at political women and try to silence women’s struggle this way. As seen most recently in the Gezi resistance, we women grow our struggle further instead of giving in to this oppression and violence.<\/span><\/p>\n We have witnessed much over the past year in Turkey. Beyond the AKP government’s oppression, violence and misogynist policies, its corruption also came to the surface. The policies of the AKP government, led by the Prime Minister, can be summed up as corruption within the AKP, poverty and violence for women.<\/span><\/p>\n Local elections lie ahead. We do not have even a single vote to give to sexist candidates or parties that do not question sexist policies! Our vote is for local government that sides with women! Our vote is to change the places and the city we live in!<\/span><\/p>\n The guns that spoke for thirty years have been silent for the past year. Together we have held onto the hope of a solution to the Kurdish question. But this resolution process is neither going well nor transparent! We want this process accelerated, given a legal basis, and women included as a party to it! We repeat that an urgent solution and many demands of the resolution process, foremost education in the mother tongue, are also feminist demands.<\/span><\/p>\n In the twelfth year of our feminist night march, we are in the street we have marched along for twelve years. In defiance of those who want to take our streets, squares and spaces from us! We will continue to struggle against patriarchy, heterosexism, capitalism and militarism, and to build the feminist struggle.<\/span><\/p>\n Feminist Revolt<\/span><\/p>\n Istanbul Feminist Collective<\/b><\/p>\n March 8, 2014<\/b><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The full 2014 statement rejects unpaid labor, forced marriage, heterosexism and male violence, and demands a transparent peace process.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,226],"tags":[24],"year":[],"fgy_konu":[],"fgy_slogan":[],"fgy_mekan":[],"fgy_kisi":[],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-97","category-basin-aciklamasi-2014","tag-basin-aciklamasi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fgy.catlakzemin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fgy.catlakzemin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fgy.catlakzemin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fgy.catlakzemin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fgy.catlakzemin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fgy.catlakzemin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8470,"href":"https:\/\/fgy.catlakzemin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions\/8470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fgy.catlakzemin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fgy.catlakzemin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fgy.catlakzemin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fgy.catlakzemin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/year?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"fgy_konu","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fgy.catlakzemin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fgy_konu?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"fgy_slogan","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fgy.catlakzemin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fgy_slogan?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"fgy_mekan","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fgy.catlakzemin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fgy_mekan?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"fgy_kisi","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fgy.catlakzemin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fgy_kisi?post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}