NO TO WAR AND TO VIOLENCE AT HOME, ON THE STREETS, IN THE WORKPLACE AND IN THE WORLD!
8Mart2022,Salı
We are entering International Women's Day on March 8, 2022 in an environment of war in the world, economic crisis in the country, and attacks on women's hard-won rights and human rights. Sovereign powers continue to devastate people's lives without caring about the future of the planet. Russia's invasion of Ukraine, expansionist aims of the USA and NATO, nuclear threats and the acceleration of the arms race, the allocation of huge budgets to the "defense" industry, and the possibility of a third world war concern societies.
As the Women's Platform for Equality (EŞİK), we, women, do not want to live in the shadow of war and violence. For this reason, we call on all states, especially the great powers, to disarm and cry out to the world that nuclear weapons should be eliminated. Going beyond abstract wishes for peace, we say that humanity must raise a stronger voice not only against war, but also against armament, nationalism, racism, sexism and militarism.
Because we know that every war has a handful of winners, consisting of arms manufacturers and their supporters, and millions of losers, especially the poor, women and children. We want to draw attention to the fact that governments that send troops and weapons to conflict zones and support attacks and invasions, especially the UN Security Council, whose permanent members are also the world's largest arms exporters, are responsible for all war losses and humanitarian crises. We see that the governments that started the wars in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen and many more places; governments and companies trying to profit from these wars; male-dominated institutions that try to control nature, society, women, LGBTI+s and all that they see as "others" do not want peace in the world.
We, women, want PEACE. We want to build a lasting and sustainable peace together.
As women who know best the pain of all kinds of violence, we want peace, a violence-free and safe life at home, at work, on the streets and in the world. To this end, we want a complete disarmament process to be started in the world, including at the individual level; and that scientific advances and economic resources be allocated to life, not war.
As women in Turkey, we experience very deeply the impact of the patriarchal capitalist system, which is built on enrichment by confiscating natural riches and human labor, and which turns our lives into hell.
The economic crisis has hit women the hardest. We are condemned to live in cold houses, in the dark. High costs of living, unemployment, low wages and job insecurity, slave-like working conditions cannot be our destiny. They want to keep us from defending, organizing and struggling together for our lives, our plundered environment, our olive groves that have been developed for rent and our universities that have been cut off from science.
They want to imprison women in families where the man will be the absolute head of the household. By usurping the right of women to alimony and child support, they are trying to place yet another burden of the economic crisis on women. In the name of facilitating divorce, they want to throw women in divorce
proceedings and their children out of the family residence in haste. The civil law is being destroyed piece by piece and replaced by religious rules that anyone can interpret as they wish. They want to regulate the life of women, children and society as a whole with the religious interpretations of those who rule, and to destroy the right of people to live freely. They want to ban art, science, entertainment and to dry our minds and brains.
We will never accept these, we will never surrender.
On this March 8, when insults were poured on independent women's organizations, at an event that addressed the prevention of violence against women no less (!), we condemn these insults, the discriminatory and marginalizing masculine language of violence, and those who applaud this language. As women from Turkey, we have ensured in the past and will ensure in the future that policies aimed at polarization and turning us against each other will be in vain.
Despite all the pressures of the government, their anti-equality and anti-feminist propaganda, the policies of closing and destroying women's institutions, appointing trustees, making threats, detentions, dismissals, and attempts to shape public perceptions about us, we, women, have never given up on the streets and our struggle. If one reason for the trust that 90% of society has in the women's movement is its independent and free spirit, the other is its persistence.
We also call on Turkey’s opposition parties that are forming alliances as they seek ways to get out of the current political and economic crisis: The women's movement is one of the most important social movements making up the biggest alliance in Turkey. Democracy cannot be established without gender equality, equality between women and men, and without involving women equally in all processes. Turkey’s future cannot be discussed without women.
We will not give up the struggle for equal representation in all fields and for violence-free lives. We will not accept any discrimination. We will continue our struggle to the end without compromising the principles of equality, freedom and secularism.
Those who aim to roll back our civil rights, ignore the principles of constitutional equality and secularism, want to do away with women’s alimony rights and child support; those who discriminate, and want to provide amnesty to sexual abusers of children, and those who ignore femicides will go. Women's struggle for equality and freedom will win.
Long live March 8th International Women's Day!
Long live the solidarity of women of Turkey and the world!
Long live our struggle for peace, freedom, democracy and justice!
Women's Platform for Equality, Turkey (Eşitlik İçin Kadın Platformu - EŞİK)
NO TO WAR AND TO VIOLENCE AT HOME, ON THE STREETS, IN THE WORKPLACE AND IN THE WORLD!
We are entering International Women's Day on March 8, 2022 in an environment of war in the world, economic crisis in the country, and attacks on women's hard-won rights and human rights. Sovereign powers continue to devastate people's lives without caring about the future of the planet. Russia's invasion of Ukraine, expansionist aims of the USA and NATO, nuclear threats and the acceleration of the arms race, the allocation of huge budgets to the "defense" industry, and the possibility of a third world war concern societies.
As the Women's Platform for Equality (EŞİK), we, women, do not want to live in the shadow of war and violence. For this reason, we call on all states, especially the great powers, to disarm and cry out to the world that nuclear weapons should be eliminated. Going beyond abstract wishes for peace, we say that humanity must raise a stronger voice not only against war, but also against armament, nationalism, racism, sexism and militarism.
Because we know that every war has a handful of winners, consisting of arms manufacturers and their supporters, and millions of losers, especially the poor, women and children. We want to draw attention to the fact that governments that send troops and weapons to conflict zones and support attacks and invasions, especially the UN Security Council, whose permanent members are also the world's largest arms exporters, are responsible for all war losses and humanitarian crises. We see that the governments that started the wars in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen and many more places; governments and companies trying to profit from these wars; male-dominated institutions that try to control nature, society, women, LGBTI+s and all that they see as "others" do not want peace in the world.
We, women, want PEACE. We want to build a lasting and sustainable peace together.
As women who know best the pain of all kinds of violence, we want peace, a violence-free and safe life at home, at work, on the streets and in the world. To this end, we want a complete disarmament process to be started in the world, including at the individual level; and that scientific advances and economic resources be allocated to life, not war.
As women in Turkey, we experience very deeply the impact of the patriarchal capitalist system, which is built on enrichment by confiscating natural riches and human labor, and which turns our lives into hell.
The economic crisis has hit women the hardest. We are condemned to live in cold houses, in the dark. High costs of living, unemployment, low wages and job insecurity, slave-like working conditions cannot be our destiny. They want to keep us from defending, organizing and struggling together for our lives, our plundered environment, our olive groves that have been developed for rent and our universities that have been cut off from science.
They want to imprison women in families where the man will be the absolute head of the household. By usurping the right of women to alimony and child support, they are trying to place yet another burden of the economic crisis on women. In the name of facilitating divorce, they want to throw women in divorce
proceedings and their children out of the family residence in haste. The civil law is being destroyed piece by piece and replaced by religious rules that anyone can interpret as they wish. They want to regulate the life of women, children and society as a whole with the religious interpretations of those who rule, and to destroy the right of people to live freely. They want to ban art, science, entertainment and to dry our minds and brains.
We will never accept these, we will never surrender.
On this March 8, when insults were poured on independent women's organizations, at an event that addressed the prevention of violence against women no less (!), we condemn these insults, the discriminatory and marginalizing masculine language of violence, and those who applaud this language. As women from Turkey, we have ensured in the past and will ensure in the future that policies aimed at polarization and turning us against each other will be in vain.
Despite all the pressures of the government, their anti-equality and anti-feminist propaganda, the policies of closing and destroying women's institutions, appointing trustees, making threats, detentions, dismissals, and attempts to shape public perceptions about us, we, women, have never given up on the streets and our struggle. If one reason for the trust that 90% of society has in the women's movement is its independent and free spirit, the other is its persistence.
We also call on Turkey’s opposition parties that are forming alliances as they seek ways to get out of the current political and economic crisis: The women's movement is one of the most important social movements making up the biggest alliance in Turkey. Democracy cannot be established without gender equality, equality between women and men, and without involving women equally in all processes. Turkey’s future cannot be discussed without women.
We will not give up the struggle for equal representation in all fields and for violence-free lives. We will not accept any discrimination. We will continue our struggle to the end without compromising the principles of equality, freedom and secularism.
Those who aim to roll back our civil rights, ignore the principles of constitutional equality and secularism, want to do away with women’s alimony rights and child support; those who discriminate, and want to provide amnesty to sexual abusers of children, and those who ignore femicides will go. Women's struggle for equality and freedom will win.
Long live March 8th International Women's Day!
Long live the solidarity of women of Turkey and the world!
Long live our struggle for peace, freedom, democracy and justice!
Women's Platform for Equality, Turkey (Eşitlik İçin Kadın Platformu - EŞİK)
March 8, 2022
info@esikplatform.net