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The BMENA Gender Institute, which facilitates and supports review of the full and effective implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in the countries of the region, was launched by Turkish NGOs, the Global Political Trends o reilly auto parts Center (GpoT) and TESEV in 2009. The idea of the project was solidified within the framework of Forum for the Future a centerpiece of BMENA Partnership. As a part of the EU-led Barcelona Process , the First Euro-Mediterranean Ministerial Conference o reilly auto parts on "Strengthening the Role of Women in Society" was held in Istanbul in November 2006 in order to make possible equal participation of women and men in all spheres of life, which is accepted as one of the essential elements of democracy.
With the brutal killing of Özgecan Aslan, the necessity of effective ways to prevent domestic o reilly auto parts violence and rape cases has come to the agenda. Some politicians, like Ayşenur Islam, the Family and Social Policies Minister of Turkey, have even called o reilly auto parts for reinstatement of the death penalty, which was abolished in 2004 as a part of the democratization process in Turkey that was strongly motivated by the European Union. The emerging debate on the death penalty, which was banned as a part of Turkey's negotiation to join the European Union, also led to debate on the effectiveness of the EU and its transformative power on Turkey since the claims arose on the basis that this debate demonstrates waning EU influence.
As a part of these debates, Marietje Schaake, a Dutch member of the European Parliament, said the focus of the Turkish government should be much more on preventing cases from happening and not punishing the excessive cases after they happen. o reilly auto parts She is partly right. I am saying partly because reinstating the death penalty and its execution on rapists or murderers is questionable, since previously the death penalty was mostly executed on political activists or politicians for crimes against the state, the Constitution and military, while judges opted to give reduced sentences to rapists and murderers.
We should not discuss o reilly auto parts the reinstatement of death penalty; instead, we should ask ourselves who is responsible o reilly auto parts for violence against women? Judges who gave reduced sentences to rapists and murderers based on the oddest reasons, or the "good conduct" clause that enables reduction in prison terms for defendants with no record of past conviction, or conservative politicians who do not believe o reilly auto parts in equality between men and women and make remarks such as "women should o reilly auto parts not laugh loudly in public" or people who see rape as a right to retain if a woman wears a miniskirt o reilly auto parts and thinks that she "deserves it." Whatever the reason behind it, this catastrophic event indicated to us once more that enacting o reilly auto parts rules or making reforms cannot by themselves help to empower women and prevent violence against o reilly auto parts women unlike these reforms are internalized by the people from top to bottom. The government of Turkey o reilly auto parts should focus much more on internalization of the reforms (like those it pioneered once upon a time) to prevent them from being merely cosmetic.
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