{"id":208,"date":"2014-11-28T15:57:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T15:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.rhythms-of-resistance.org\/?p=208"},"modified":"2019-05-30T15:58:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T15:58:04","slug":"erdogan-is-right-we-do-not-care-about-fitrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhythms-of-resistance.org\/fi\/2014\/11\/28\/erdogan-is-right-we-do-not-care-about-fitrat\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdo\u011fan is right! We do not care about f\u0131trat!"},"content":{"rendered":"

T\u00e4m\u00e4 teksti on valitettavasti saatavilla vain kielill\u00e4: English<\/a>.<\/p>

A day before 25 November, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, President Erdo\u011fan made a statement about the difference of nature or disposition (*f\u0131trat*) between women and men. Previously, in 2010, he had stated that he did not believe in equality between women and men due to their dispositions. We replied to this statement by saying that \u201cthe more you tell us not being equal with men, the more we get killed.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women we, as feminists, have a lot to say about what we have gone through in the last twelve months. Erdo\u011fan\u2019s words one again clearly depict what we are living through.<\/p>\n

By using the term *f\u0131trat* Erdo\u011fan naturalizes gender roles as if these were an unchangeable law. According to this, women are supposed to get married, do the housework, bear children, and carry out the child and elderly care. Also, women are expected to join the labor market only through jobs that fits their traditional gender roles, that is jobs that are \u2018feminine\u2019, often part-time, flexible and insecure.<\/p>\n

Male violence against women is the outcome of the material inequality between genders. Men apply violence to women to control women\u2019s bodies, labor, and identities, and to consolidate their authority. There are many forms of violence: Men slap us, kick us, humiliate us, and forbid us to work, harass us verbally, rape us, and hinder our success at work. Violence sometimes starts with a slap, other times with a humiliation or a simple \u201cI don\u2019t want you to see those people\u201d and sometimes ends with the murder of the woman.<\/p>\n

Once the gender roles are fixed, it is forbidden to leave the marked territory. By offering *f\u0131trat* as an excuse in a country where femicide is a daily routine, Erdo\u011fan becomes the perpetrator of women killings. He legitimizes the punishment and the killing of women.<\/p>\n

It is this very state which insists on *f\u0131trat*, protects the family rather than the women with its showpiece laws, looks for the consent of women in cases of rape, releases verdicts of \u201cunjust provocation\u201d and supports the ISIS which has given a rape *fetwa* against women.<\/p>\n

Erdo\u011fan is right. We do not care about *f\u0131trat*. We reject the gender roles imposed on us by the patriarchy. We do not think that we have to bear children simply because we can. Nor do we think that we should be the only caretakers of children. We know that family is not the only means to exist and different forms of solidarity are possible. We never lose our faith in a world where women and men are equal. We fight for equality, justice, and freedom.<\/p>\n

The only way to achieve real justice, not male justice, is equality. It is obvious that the statements and policies which are based on the idea that women and men cannot be equal pose a threat to women\u2019s freedom. Therefore, we make a call for more women\u2019s solidarity and organized struggle against the policies of the President Erdo\u011fan and the AKP which sharpen gender inequality.<\/p>\n

Long live our feminist struggle!<\/p>\n

Istanbul Feminist Collective<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0 *An Arabic word with Islamic roots which describes the \u2018pure\u2019 and \u2018natural\u2019 human disposition.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

T\u00e4m\u00e4 teksti on valitettavasti saatavilla vain kielill\u00e4: English.A day before 25 November, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, President Erdo\u011fan made a statement about the difference of nature or disposition (*f\u0131trat*) between women and men. Previously, in 2010, he had stated that he did not believe in equality between women and men … Jatka lukemista ”Erdo\u011fan is right! We do not care about f\u0131trat!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhythms-of-resistance.org\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhythms-of-resistance.org\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhythms-of-resistance.org\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhythms-of-resistance.org\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhythms-of-resistance.org\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhythms-of-resistance.org\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhythms-of-resistance.org\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhythms-of-resistance.org\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhythms-of-resistance.org\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhythms-of-resistance.org\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}