RT Article
T1 Family Disaster: The Origins of Gender Violence Legislation in Turkey
JF Violence against women
VO 31
IS 6/7
SP 1488
OP 1513
A1 Alnıaçık, Ayşe
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1922038695
AB 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.
K1 Family Protection Act
K1 women's movement
K1 frame analysis
K1 Turkey
K1 gender violence policy
DO 10.1177/10778012241233003