- Turkey’s National Action Plan to combat Violence Against Women
- The Turkish Judiciary and Honor Killings
- Kamer Report on Honour Killings
- UNPFA and UNDP Action Program on Honour Killings
- Turkish HR Presidency Statistical Report on Honour Killings
- UN Resolution on honour based VAW [Turkish version] [Sorani version]
- Anatomy of honor based violence – Stop Honor Killings Campaign
- Honour: crimes, paradigms and violence against women By Sara Hossain, Lynn Welchman
- A Feminist Analysis of Honor Killings in Rural Turkey
Combating Domestic Violence Against Women National Action Plan 2007 – 2010
REPUBLIC OF TURKEY PRIME MINISTRY Directorate General on the Status of Women
The Turkish Government acknowledges its own shortcomings in tackling violence against women and commits in this action plan to address this phenomenon more thoroughly. The Action Plan encompasses comprehensive and applicable activities to be developed in accordance with the objectives related to six main: legal arrangements, social awareness and mental transformation, advancement of women’s socio-economic status, protective services, curative and rehabilitation services, and inter-sectoral cooperation. Raising social awareness on gender equality and ensuring the necessary mental transformation are identified in the action plan as being of utmost importance in the prevention of violence against women.
The Trial of Kerem Çakan: The Turkish Judiciary And Honour Killings (Trial Observation Report)
Kurdish Human Rights Project
The trial of Kerem Çakan highlights the ongoing violence and discrimination against women commonly witnessed in the Kurdish region of Turkey as well as the failure of Turkish authorities to ensure in practice their stated aims of protection of women from violent abuse. The trial proceedings against Çakan do go some way in ensuring that perpetrators of violence against women in Turkey are brought to justice under the law. Nevertheless, it also highlights deficiencies in Turkey’s efforts to commit to internal reform. Furthermore, it brings attention to the inconsistencies in its legal system and its failure to overcome ingrained cultural mindsets, prejudicial to the rights of women.
ISTERSEK BITER: We Can Stop This
Kamer Women’s Rights Organisation
Kamer is a women´s rights organization based in Sout East Turkey that has developed projects concerning honor killings since 2003. As they have reached out to women who were in danger of being killed and provided them protection, they have also endeavored to gain deeper knowledge on the subject and to develop lasting solutions. In this report Kamer exposes the state of honour killings in Turkey. The study was conducted through case studies, the personal cases of each of its clients, and it reminds us that honor killings are not part of the identity of any particular ethnic, religious or economic group.
The Dynamics of Honour Killings in Turkey
United Nations Population Fund and United Nations Development Program
This report aims to understand the notion of honor and the dynamics of honor killings in Turkish society with the overall purpose of providing feedback for a UNPFA and UNDP action program on this issue. It provides examples with where public officials support beliefs and promote an environment in which honor killings are permitted. Dispelling honor killings as acceptable, is concluded, is a shared responsibility among all segments of Turkish society including public officials, educators, police, lawyers and judges, legislators, media religious leaders, youth organizations, communities and families themselves.
Honour killings report 2007
Turkish Prime Ministry Human Rights Presidency.
A main service unit in the central organization of Prime Ministry concludes that beyond legal reforms, Prime Ministry circulars, and the research conducted by the General Directorate of Security Forces, the Honor Killings Research Commission and the General Directorate of the Status of Women, enforcement is still necessary. The Human Rights Presidency submitted this statistical report on the state of honour killings in 81 provinces in Turkey in 2007. It draws the connection between the number of murderers and victims of honor killing and low education levels, and also recommends expanding women’s shelters as a means to address honour killings.
UN General Assembly Resolution 2004
Resolution working towards the elimination of crimes against women and girls committed in the name of honour
Emphasizing that such crimes are incompatible with all religious and cultural values, and also that the elimination of crimes against women and girls committed in the name of honour requires greater efforts and commitment on the part of Governments and the international community.
Honour: crimes, paradigms and violence against women By Sara Hossain, Lynn Welchman
This book arises from the practical insights and experiences of individuals and organisations addressing so-called ‘honour crimes’ in different geographic and social contexts, including ‘honour killings’ and interference with the right to marry. Its purpose is to support human rights activists, policymakers and lawyers by explaining what such crimes are, how they vary from country to country, and what strategies are needed to combat them. Drawing on original case material from a wide range of countries, it identifies and analyses cross-cutting thematic issues and seeks to develop a human rights based framework as an alternative to a culturally relativist approach. It urges the reform of many national legal systems which enable men to rely on the pretext of ‘honour crimes’ in order to get a reduced sentence. The contributors take the position that the concept of ‘crimes of honour’ should have no special legal recognition but should be treated as any other acts of violence against women – they have no justification.
