While attacks on women continue, we are at the Feminist Night March for the 13th time; we are in the streets again, always in the streets!<\/span><\/p>\n We have had another difficult year. Femicide has reached the scale of massacre. By saying “You are not equal,” “It is against your nature,” “Do not laugh,” “Whatever you do, do not have an abortion,” they had women killed, they killed women. Those sending messages of condemnation after \u00d6zgecan never took responsibility for their role in femicide. They refused to see that the man they called a monster was one of them, that those interfering with what women do fuel male violence. The male domination you nourish took \u00d6zgecan from us and threatens every woman’s life every day.<\/span><\/p>\n Misogyny attacks us in every sphere of life: in the government’s “family package,” on public transport, in values education, in parliament, at home, in the streets…<\/span><\/p>\n But today, here, we want to speak about resistance to all these attacks, about our struggle to hold on to life despite men and the AKP.<\/span><\/p>\n Through its employment policies and statements that “women are entrusted to men,” the AKP government wants to condemn women to marriage and family. Gold and incentives for those who marry and give birth; restricted social rights to make life difficult if you do not marry… We are not fooled by these lies; we struggle to build the lives we want and create solidarity to do so. The number of women who do not marry increases every day.<\/span><\/p>\n Those insisting that we marry also obstruct divorce. From the state establishing a divorce ombudsman to the neighbor advising “Do not break up your home, give it another chance,” divorce is made harder. The reason for killing that we most often read in femicide cases is a woman’s divorce or desire to divorce. Despite all these obstacles, the AKP’s nightmare is coming true: women are not giving up on divorce.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The new package of flexible work, childbirth assistance and leave has not fooled us at all. We see that you are making women’s employment flexible and insecure, <\/span>and that the result will be greater exploitation of our paid and unpaid labor. We do not fall for your lies.<\/span><\/p>\n While pressure on women to bear three children, five children comes from the highest levels of the state, and motherhood is presented as the most important career in a woman’s life, we women say, “Our bodies are ours; the right to decide about our lives is ours.” We did not allow the abortion ban to pass through parliament. In response, a de facto abortion ban was introduced; in all of Istanbul, only three hospitals provide abortion on request. When we exposed this, instead of preventing the crime committed by the hospitals, the Ministry of Health called feminists liars. But we will not give up pursuing our rights or standing in solidarity with one another against this ban.<\/span><\/p>\n Women have not remained silent against male violence! They will not remain silent! Women exercised their rights more often when subjected to violence. While the number of women reporting men to police stations was 82,205 in 2013, it rose to 118,014 in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n Our organized voice rose even louder against the massacres of women that even the media sometimes had to report as “male terror.” The male judiciary, which applies unjust provocation reductions, in other words male privilege discounts, in femicide trials, has begun to fear women’s organized struggle. It has become more visible that the attitude “Do not come between husband and wife” prepares the process leading to women’s deaths. More people are intervening rather than watching violence.<\/span><\/p>\n We have begun to hear the stories of women who killed men abusing them in order to survive. Self-defense against male violence is a right!<\/span><\/p>\n They said, “You cannot live as women and men together”; we said, “None of your business.” We live as women and men together and fall in love with people of our own gender too. Despite homophobic oppression and resistance to efforts to include sexual orientation and gender identity in the constitution, we said, “We are here,” and tens of thousands marched in the Pride March; new LGBTI initiatives were formed. Organized struggle against trans murders continued.<\/span><\/p>\n The women who left their mark on the growing Koban\u00ea resistance right beside us strengthened our determination to struggle. Fighting not only ISIS but also the male domination oppressing women in the Middle East, for all the women of the Middle East, the YPJ strengthened us on the other side of the border and reminded us of our own power.<\/span><\/p>\n All this empowerment, struggle and resistance happened despite the misogynist, family-centered AKP, despite the AKP’s policies seeking to make us unable to breathe.<\/span><\/p>\n Today in Turkey, alongside misogyny, hostility to feminism is being spread by the president himself. Because the AKP government knows that feminists are the organized force standing directly in the way of implementing its policies that draw strength from religious conservatism and deny the existence of women who build lives outside the family. The AKP is terrified of women’s empowerment. They see feminist words as a threat. Let them keep attacking feminism to break resistance to male domination; we grow stronger through our feminist struggle.<\/span><\/p>\n Feminism envisages, first and foremost, women claiming their own lives. Whether or not a woman calls herself feminist, feminism touches every woman’s life.<\/span><\/p>\n Every day, more women strengthen the feminist movement and weave women’s solidarity by organizing and transforming their own lives. For feminists, for women, there is no turning back!<\/span><\/p>\n Istanbul Feminist Collective<\/b><\/p>\n 08.03.2015<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2015 Feminist Night March statement celebrates women’s resistance to male violence, AKP policies and patriarchal control, insisting there is no turning back.<\/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":[124,229],"tags":[24],"year":[],"fgy_konu":[],"fgy_slogan":[],"fgy_mekan":[],"fgy_kisi":[],"class_list":["post-1854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-124","category-basin-aciklamasi-2015","tag-basin-aciklamasi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fgy.catlakzemin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854","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=1854"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fgy.catlakzemin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8511,"href":"https:\/\/fgy.catlakzemin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions\/8511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fgy.catlakzemin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fgy.catlakzemin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fgy.catlakzemin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fgy.catlakzemin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/year?post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"fgy_konu","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fgy.catlakzemin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fgy_konu?post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"fgy_slogan","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fgy.catlakzemin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fgy_slogan?post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"fgy_mekan","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fgy.catlakzemin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fgy_mekan?post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"fgy_kisi","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fgy.catlakzemin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fgy_kisi?post=1854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}