Women's Rights should not stop on December 5th
In Turkish culture, in Turkish society, violence against women was seen as an undesirable situation. Today, it is a situation that is not approved at all. However, as the number of degenerate people in our society increases, we observe an increase in violence against women.
It is thanks to our women that life is more meaningful and beautiful. Because our women are mothers, sisters and brothers. Women are the values that make a society a society, protect and preserve a family and a home. They are our rosebud roses that have not blossomed.
Our women are the ones who stand behind their men when the time comes and provide them with all the support they can. Unfortunately, the value of our women is not appreciated much. We can understand this from the events in our world and in our country and from the physiological and psychological violence against women.
Cowardly people with no character think that they are doing a great job by attacking, killing or injuring women. As a society, we should not turn a blind eye to such cruelty against women. Especially mothers should be very careful when raising boys and work to ensure that their children have good morals. At a young age, perceptions such as you are a man, you can do what you want, you are stronger than women should not be implanted in the minds of children.
Boys who are not in a good environment, in a healthy family environment, will neither be a good wife, a good neighbor, nor a good person in the future. For this, mothers also have a great responsibility here. Our women should not be oppressed, they should not be harmed in the slightest. They are the crown of our heads and without them life has no meaning. Therefore, we must stop all kinds of violence against women and protect them. Our mothers are the crown of our heads. If we say that no hand is raised against the mother, it really should not be raised, and those who raise it should feel the pressure of society on them and hesitate. Laws should protect women who are oppressed and despised and should not remain on paper. Women should always be able to access channels to make their voices heard without any obstacles. The state must guarantee this and institutional mechanisms must protect women in this regard.
The Istanbul Convention is the first binding international document that provides a detailed legal protection against all forms of violence against women and defines violence against women as a violation of human rights and a form of discrimination. The implementation areas of the rights that our women have gained with the Istanbul Convention should be expanded, and we should re-enter this Convention. The government and the opposition should unite on this issue and act together against those who devalue this issue. Although Turkish tradition says that the pillar of the family is the father, the pillar of the family is the mother.
The first steps towards women's participation in politics were taken during the French Revolution, when Olympe de Gouges published the Declaration of Women's Rights in 1791. In the first Turkish states established in Central Asia, men and women had equal rights. While there was polygamy in Arab culture, Turkish khans were always monogamous. In addition to the kings, their wives, called hatun, also had a say in state administration. Women rode horses, shot arrows, played ball, practiced heavy sports such as wrestling and participated in wars. For example, Emir Timur used to take his wife with him on his horse when he went to war, and he would never leave her with him. Genghis Khan attached great importance to his wife and took her with him wherever he went, just like Timur the Emir, preferring to welcome foreign statesmen and ambassadors with his wife.
Women have always had a respected place in Turkish society. In any case, violence against women is an undesirable situation in our Turkish culture. It is not approved. However, as the number of degenerate people in our society increases, we observe an increase in violence against women. If the Turkish tradition is broken, unfortunately, our women are the first to lose. For this reason, as Turkish society, we must continue to demand from the state and the government that we protect our essence, protect our fundamental values, punish those who see our women and girls as second class people in front of the law, and give importance to equality between men and women as a public policy.
In this sense, I consider it important that women are given the same right to vote and be elected as men. The practice of granting women the right to vote and be elected in Turkey also refers to the enactment of the laws necessary for women to gain their political rights in the 1930s. Ataturk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, signed the regulations that gave women the right to vote and be elected when many countries in Europe did not yet have the right to vote and be elected. On December 5, 1934, the law giving women the right to vote and be elected was adopted. December 5 is celebrated as "International Women's Rights Day" as well as the anniversary of the adoption of the constitutional and legislative amendments granting political rights to Turkish women by the Turkish Grand National Assembly. Ultimately, in modern Turkish society, it was thanks to Atatürk's reforms in social life that women gained the right to vote and be elected in political life.
As a result, we must treat our women with the same respect as we treat our mothers who brought us into the world. Our women are flowers, smell them carefully and love them. Do not pluck them, do not kill them. Do not commit crimes against humanity...
