Gender and violence in Turkey: An Introduction

Abstract

The society we should strive for is one that can hold and value cultural, religious, and gendered differences while maintaining the promise of equality for all. In many obvious ways, women’s daily lives differ from men. The strategies to improve their lives must, therefore, take these differences into consideration. There is a critical need to place gender-based violence within the context of the structural inequality faced by women. Doing so would work as a means of breaking down the distinction between public and private life, which operates to exclude gender-based violence from the human rights agenda.