CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Rustamli Gulshan |
|---|---|
| Title | Positive Steps and Ongoing Problems in Turkey's dealing with Domestic Violence Against Women Since the 1980s |
| Summary | This thesis focuses on the main positive steps and ongoing problems of the Turkish state since the 1980s in implementing legal and social policy changes to eradicate domestic violence in the country. The two research questions it tries to answer: 1) what are the main positive steps that Turkey has made regarding domestic violence in Turkey since the 1980s, and how can we explain these legal and social policy achievements? 2) What are the main ongoing problems with Turkey’s attempts to deal with domestic violence, and how can we explain these ongoing problems? The thesis used a combination of historical and textual analysis, and its main sources were documents related to Turkey having ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). I found that Turkey’s taking a number of significant steps in the struggle to eradicate violence against women was due to intertwined national and international forces: the ongoing struggle of women’s NGOs within Turkey, and pressure from the CEDAW Commission – often reinforcing the critical comments made by the NGOs. The reason for the ongoing problems was Turkey being half-hearted or unwilling to make a number of changes or provide sufficient services for battered women. This resistance, I argue, is not due to a lack of resources but based on ideological grounds and related to the AKP’s, the governing party, conservative politics, as also indicated by the NGOs in their Shadow reports. The AKP prefers women to be within the family union and to keep the family “unbroken” rather than to protect women’s against violence and promote women’s human rights as individuals. |
| Supervisor | Francisca de Haan |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/rustamli_gulshan.pdf |
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