Are you calling my Frankists, strange?

Actually Alpha, I am far more interested in your view on a Women's Refuge opening in Besiktas.

I notice you have made no comment on it so far.

I found the article fascinating, not just because I agree with the topic of women's shelters (Mor Çatı has been doing a wonderful work here formany many years) but also:

a) It is in Todays Zaman - which as Alpha F points out is a newspaper published by a more religious media group

and

b) some fascianting quotes e.g.:

In just three hours, around 300 signatures were collected. ..Several women expressed their surprise at seeing male activists engaged in the topic. “It is very nice that men also show their support for the issue,” said Zeynep, 56.

“It is mostly older women who are aware of the problem,” says AI-Turkey member Özlem Çolak (24), adding that headscarved women in particular are very open to discussing the situation. “They always listen and often sign,” she said. “The younger women, though, often wave it off and do not take the issue seriously.”

Interestingly, some women refused to sign but accepted a gift the activists had prepared: a small hand mirror on which the phone number of a women’s helpline, Mor Çatı, was written.

I don't know about poor AlphaF's wife, but I CERTAINLY need a refuge from him from time to time

an appeal started in 2004:


Worldwide Appeal
TURKEY: Women need shelters

Women in Istanbul call for shelters
Women in protest in Istanbul that they need "shelters not graves" © Private

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Appeal status: Active
Appeal started: July 2004

“Everyone sends women who have experienced violence to us. Everyone. The government, the police, everyone. We don’t have the facilities to meet the demand.”
A worker at a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Turkey speaking to AI

At least a third of all women in Turkey are estimated to experience physical violence within their families. Women should not face this violence unsupported. The state has a duty to protect women from violence committed not only by agents of the state but also by private individuals and groups.

The first step in the protection of women should be the Family Protection Law, which would distance perpetrators and allow women to stay in their own homes. However, it is recognized that in some emergency situations this is insufficient to protect women, and for such situations shelters are needed.

It is estimated that there are only 14 shelters and 19 community-based services to support women experiencing violence at home for a population of 70 million. Two independently run shelters providing invaluable services to women escaping violence and to community education, including an effective police education campaign, were closed in 1997 and 1999 due to lack of funding.

The role of women’s rights activists is crucial to ensure that at least a small proportion of women obtain protection. Women’s organizations in Turkey believe that such centres should be run independently of the government. “We have reports that government-run women’s shelters are turning away women who do not have their identity cards with them,” said a representative. “When you are running away from a violent home, do you think to take your identity card?” Government-run shelters have been criticized for their failures to accept women who fall into particular categories – for example, prostitutes, women with health problems and women who are pregnant.

Please write, calling on the authorities to help protect women by funding a sufficient number of appropriate shelters for women in collaboration with NGOs experienced in working to protect women from violence.

Send appeals to:
Prime Minister of Turkey
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Office of the Prime Minister
Basbakanlik
06573 Ankara
Turkey

E-mail: receptayyip.erdogan@basbakanlik.gov.tr

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/oj/2006/ce157/ce15720060706en03850390.pdf
http://www.amnesty.ca/take_action/actions/turkey_legislation.php
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGEUR440242004?open&of=ENG-373
Alpha_F please do not make yourself rideculous about frankists!What do you know about them???!!!According to them women rigth was to bear children and do not protest against domestic violence!Still in Spain there are example of wives battery and "Macho"attitude"but thanks evolution,women grew up enough to fight for their rights!Why men still tend to treat women worse than domestic animals in some countries?Is it bcs women.children and fish do not have voice?just insignificant creatures?
damn it,both sexes were created equal,so far we do not know what God's sex is as according to the Bible god said"I am what I am"brain teaser.isn't it???????
why,why.why women have to be submissive and suffer?????

Where do you girls get such a weird idea that AlphaF can have anything, ANYTHING, against welfare of women kind?

If no one wants to discuss Amnesty International, LGBT Movement, and Frankists....I do not mind !

Alpha F or Omega or all greek alphabet,I do not mind discuss frankists with you)))))