Turkey's 'Panic Buttons' Turn Off Safety Advocates
By Alina Lehtinen
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Turkey has a high-profile pilot project to ward off domestic assault. Safety advocates say it won't work as long as victims continue to be routinely disbelieved and mistreated.
ISTANBUL, Turkey (WOMENSENEWS)--When the government in Ankara replaced the Ministry of Women and Family Affairs with the Ministry of Family and Social Policies a year ago, women's rights activists saw the clock turning backward.
This, after all, was the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who in 2010 told a gathering of Turkish women's organizations in Istanbul's Dolmabahce Palace that he doesn't believe in equality between the sexes.
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