Selin Nakıpoğlu: Decision is like a litmus test for our definition of 'male judiciary'
The verdict has come from the case of Pınar Gültekin, who was burned alive on July 16, 2020 in Muğla and thrown into a river after pouring concrete on her. Three members of the 1st Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals stated that 'Pınar Gültekin was not killed with a monstrous feeling and the murderer Metin Cemal Avcı committed the murder under unjust provocation' and said that the sentence of the murderer should be reduced. This verdict has once again revealed the connection between the prosecution of acts of male violence in Türkiye and the concept of justice. The fact that a murder committed with similar methods applied by ISIS, such as burning a woman alive and pouring concrete on her, is not evaluated within the scope of 'monstrous feeling' is the clearest indicator of the legitimization of violence against the female body. This verdict is like the litmus paper of our definition of MALE JUDICIARY.
Instead of thinking about how to prevent male violence and developing policies to this end, the AKP government withdrew its signature from the Istanbul Convention. With the withdrawal from the convention, men who were thinking of or committing violence against women, children, and LGBTI+ individuals gained courage and were patted on the back. By withdrawing its signature, the AKP government basically said the following; we will not protect women, children, and LGBTI+ individuals from male violence. The murderers also received this message. Just like Pınar Gültekin’s murderer Cemal Metin Avcı said in the courtroom, “The annulment of the Istanbul Convention was a good thing.”
Essentially, the regime is doing things and doing things that are in line with its nature, because there is HUDA PAR at one end of the regime, AKP in the middle, and MHP on the other. The current situation is evolving into misogyny day by day. We are exposed to misogyny, LGBTI+ hostility that is not even felt necessary to hide; humiliation, violence and legitimization of male violence because of our gender. It is possible to find traces of misogyny that legitimizes all this violence, oppression, exploitation and discrimination against women in history, religions and traditions. This approach, which has penetrated to the marrow of political Islamists, also offers useful narratives to subordinate women and subject them to male control.
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