TY  - JOUR
TT  - Protecting the Woman or the Family? Contradiction Between the Law and Its Practice in Violence Against Woman Cases in Turkey
AU  - Ayhan, Tutku
PY  - 2017
DA  - March
DO  - 10.14782/sbd.2017.52
JF  - Marmara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilimler Dergisi
PB  - Marmara Üniversitesi
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2147-6934
SP  - 137
EP  - 162
VL  - 5
IS  - 1
KW  - Violence against women
KW  - Istanbul Convention
KW  - law number 6284
KW  - JDP
KW  - woman
KW  - family
KW  - conservative discourses and policies
KW  - parliamentary research commission
N2  - Recently there have been significant developments in Turkey concerning the issue of violence againstwomen such as the signing of the Istanbul Convention and the enactment of the law number 6284on violence. The main argument of this paper is that the legislation is not properly implemented andthis situation is due to the contradiction between the regulation stipulating gender equality andthe patriarchal-conservative approach of the Justice and Development Party (JDP, Ak Party, AKP).According to the paper, as a conservative party, AKP perceives the empowerment of women asindividuals rather as a threat to the unity of the family. That is why it does not comply with theobligations of the Convention and dedicates its discoursal and political priorities to themaintenance of the family at the expense of the welfare of women. To prove its hypotheses, thepaper firstly depicts a short overview of the Convention and the law on violence followed by ananalysis of the problems encountered in the implementation of the law. For this analysis, it makes useof the reports and declarations of women’s organizations which are members of Stop ViolencePlatform that has worked with the Ministry of Family and Social Policies during the law-makingprocess. The paper secondly analyzes the public discourses of the AKP governments between 2011and 2016 concerning women as well as the activities of two parliamentary research commissions onviolence against women and divorces. It aims to reveal that the reluctance of the AKP inimplementing the law is rooted in its conservatism.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.14782/sbd.2017.52
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/284485
ER  -