The arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic and consequent lockdowns has reportedly exacerbated domestic violence globally. Human Rights Watch’s 2021 report has noted alarming rates of femicide and domestic abuse in Turkey. HRW has criticized Turkey for what the organisation noted as carelessness and neglect by Turkish officials. Data collected by women's rights groups on domestic violence and abuse in Turkey highlights staggering annual rates of femicide in the country.
Turkey has introduced major legal reforms designed to protect women, sadly there has been a failure in implementing these penal codes and civil code reforms. HRW has criticised the role of Turkish police in failing to prevent and combat domestic violence. “He Loves You, He Beats You” - these are the words in many cases offered by security forces to victims of abuse who are dismissed and simply ordered to return to their husbands.
Since the 15 July 2016 coup attempt, more than 17,000 women with their 900 children have been jailed without charge. Women suspected of being Gulen Movement members have also lost their jobs. Besides politically motivated court charges, the recent testimonies of many women indicate that Turkish women continue to suffer immensely at the hands of the Turkish state with reports emerging of women being subjected to the humiliation of strip-searches in front of male officers.
The Turkish government is not only responsible for the violation of fundamental women’s rights in Turkey alone, but also those of refugees in Turkey as well as Syrian women in their own country with Turkey occupying parts of Northern Syria. HRW’s 2021 report mentions that in the last four years Turkey has continued to exert a great deal of control via Syrian non-state actors in the region where significant human rights abuses continue unabated.
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