Traduction de «Mouvement des femmes turques » (Français → Anglais) :

During her first visit to Turkey in April 2011, the rapporteur gave a keynote speech at an international convention on gender equality organised by UNDP and the Turkish Parliament and interviewed prominent women in Turkish society including Güldal Akşit, who was at the time the Chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Equal Opportunities; Nazik Işık, the Founder of the Women’s Solidarity Association; Aynur Bektaş, the Chair of Women Entrepreneurs Board of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey; Yazgülü Aldoğan, columnist; Sertab Erener, artist; Gülay Aslantepe, who was then the director of ILO Turkey; Yakın Ertürk, ...[+++]UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women.

Deeply deplores the persistent high levels of domestic violence, including so-called honour crimes and the phenomenon of forced marriages; welcomes, in that connection, the initiatives by women’s movements which give visibility to these problems and urges the Government to step up its preventive efforts at all levels, in particular by enforcing Law No 4320 on the Protection of the Family and by monitoring its implementation by the ...[+++] police and the judiciary, by obliging municipalities of over 50 000 inhabitants to provide sufficient shelters for women and minors in danger, by effectively monitoring full compliance with this obligation, and by putting in place a system of follow-up assistance for women and minors leaving the shelters, in order to provide them with appropriate psychological support, judicial assistance and health care and to assist their reintegration into society; calls on the Government to establish adequate and effective oversight of municipalities’ compliance with this obligation; urges the judiciary to ensure that violence against women and minors, as well as those fighting so-called honour crimes, is consistently and properly punished;

whereas the Commission has emphasised in its 2010 and 2011 progress reports on Turkey that sustained further efforts are needed to convert the existing legal framework into political, social and economic reality; whereas the Commission has further stated that gender equality, fighting violence against women, including honour killings, and combating early and forced marriages remain major challenges for Turkey; whereas gender equality, women's rights and gender mainstreaming should be upheld in the new Turkish Constitution which is to be drafted;

Welcomes the increase in the number of female members of the Turkish Parliament, from 9,1 % in the 2007 elections to 14,3 % following the 2011 elections; notes, however, that this percentage is still low, and calls for a new law on political parties and elections which would establish a mandatory quota system ensuring the fair representation of women on electoral lists; is concerned at the generally limited representation of Turkish women in politics, managerial positions in public administration, and political parties;

Welcomes the establishment of a specialised domestic violence bureau within the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office; stresses that by ensuring that the entire legal process in cases of violence against women is handled by public prosecutors who are experts in domestic violence, by granting this specialised bureau the authority to issue immediately effective direct orders to the police to arrest the perpetrator and protect the victim, including the immediate enforcement of protection orders and transfer to shelters, this office has achieved an important step in combating ...[+++]violence against women, protecting the victims and punishing the perpetrators; in order to extend this level of protection to the entire country, calls on the Turkish government to establish specialised public prosecutors’ bureaus to deal with domestic violence in all the country’s provinces;

Let us help not only the women of Turkey, but also the Turkish women of Cyprus, to avail themselves of their rights.