A war on women?
Here in America, there is a talk of a war on women. Those who say that don't know what a real "war" on women looks like. A real war has a body count.
A real war on women can not be talked about. It must be suppressed. An imaginary war on women will suffice to hide the truth for those who are uninterested in the truth. (the chattering class)
A rise in the percentage of murdered women going up 1.4 percent may be a statistical anomaly.
A rise in the percentage of murdered women going up 14 percent should be a matter of concern.
A rise in the percentage of murdered women going up 140 percent would be national crises.
A rise in the percentage of murdered women going up 1400 percent must be covered up, and never talked about.
Modern Turkey.
Taken from page 5 of linked report
Recent Femicide in Turkey
Femicide in Turkey has more than doubled in the past five years; almost every day one comes across news of the murder of at least one woman. As stated in the news a day after the murders of four separate women:
The murder of women in Turkey does not slow down. Almost every day news about the killing of women or violence against women is received from all around the country.Just yesterday four women were killed for various reasons.” (www.milliyet.com.tr, September 2, 2013)
One can easily claim that there is an obvious confusion about statistics on murdered women in Turkey. In a response to a parliamentary question,the minister of justice of that time provided some statistics which showed a 1400% increase in women murdered in five years.
(page one)
Defining Recent Femicide in Modern Turkey: Revolt Killing
Journal of International Women's Studies
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Defining Recent Femicide in Modern Turkey: Revolt Killing Ihsan Cetin1
Abstract
This paper aims to question recent increasing femicidesin Turkey through the examination of their reasons and dynamics. Therefore, it starts with analyzing current terms such as “honor killing”, “törekilling” and “crimesof passion”. The article claims that the recent description ofthe murder of womenin Turkey as “honor killings” is misleading. Turkey must employ finer distinctions among types of femicide so as to prevent murderers and the larger society from justifying such actions through claims of honor.
This paper thus asserts that the analysis of femicide in Turkey, as a Muslim country, should go far beyond the context of honor killing and argues that such examination must consider new social and economic changes as well as the new status of women in modern Turkish society. Thus, the article raises a newargument by suggesting a new term,“revolt killing”,for conceptualizing femicide in Turkey in tandem with recent social change and the increasing status of women. It argues that revolt killing isthe concept of conflict between tradition and modernity, and it claims that recent increasing femicides in Turkey are closely related with the changing status of women towards modernity in contrast to the stability of men’s status in tradition.
KeyWords:Femicide, Revolt Killing, Honor Killing, TöreKilling, Crimes of Passion, Modernity, New Status of Women, Turkey
http://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1801&context=jiws
In a response to a parliamentary question,the minister of justice of that time provided some statistics which showed a 1400% increase in women murdered in five years.