Family Disaster: The Origins of Gender Violence Legislation in Turkey

This article provides a case study regarding struggles over framing gender violence as a political issue. It looks at how gender violence initially entered political discourse and state legislation in Turkey. It identifies the main political actors as feminists, Islamists, and Kemalists, and examine...

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Main Author: Alnıaçık, Ayşe (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2025
In: Violence against women
Year: 2025, Volume: 31, Issue: 6/7, Pages: 1488-1513
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Family Protection Act
women's movement
frame analysis
Turkey
gender violence policy
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Summary:This article provides a case study regarding struggles over framing gender violence as a political issue. It looks at how gender violence initially entered political discourse and state legislation in Turkey. It identifies the main political actors as feminists, Islamists, and Kemalists, and examines their impacts on state policy-making processes and outcomes. It argues that, in the Turkish context, the Islamism–Kemalism divide contoured the limits and possibilities of frame institutionalization in legislation and characterized state responses to gender violence through familial ideology, which prioritized family privacy and unity over women's right to live free from violence.
ISSN:1552-8448
DOI:10.1177/10778012241233003