​​​​​​​KCDP documents 18 femicides in Turkey in June

The Turkish KCDP Platform issued its report last June, in which it documented murder of ten women at the hands of their husbands, two at the hands of their families, two at the hands of their relatives, one at the hands of her father, another at the hands of her ex-husband, a third at the hands of her boyfriend and a fourth at the hands of her ex-boyfriend..

The report confirmed that causes of 12 femicides have not been specified, while four of them were killed because of decisions they made related to their lives, such as divorce, refusal to marry, or even refusal of reconciliation, while two were killed for economic reasons.

All the killings took place in public places, "three of them were killed on the street, two in their workplaces, one in a hotel, another in an anonymous location, and one in front of a school." As for the women who were killed at their homes in the last month, they constituted 50%, according to the report.

The report documented that various types of weapons were used in the murders, as nine women were killed by firearms, four with sharp objects, two were suffocated, one was burned, and fourteen women have not been known how their lives were claimed.

In its May report, the platform had documented the killing of 17 women and the death of 20 others suspiciously, as the reason behind these killings was not determined.

On Thursday, Turkey officially withdrew from the Istanbul International Convention to Prevent Violence against Women, amid warnings of an escalation of violence against women in the country, and women's protests refusing to the withdrawal.

D.H

ANHA