Most of the women exposed to violence in Turkey request their identity cards to be completely changed, according to the data of the Ministry of Family and Social Policies.
300 women in Turkey have changed their names to avoid domestic violence in 2017. This number was 40 in 2013.
The demand for this practice adopted with the legal amendment in 2013 is quite high, the daily reported.
40 women exposed to domestic violence had changed their names in 2013 when the Ministry’s practice first began. While the number of women who changed their names was 125 in 2015, this figure has reached 300 in 2017. The Ministry emphasized following certain investigations that the women with new identities have not been able to be found by the persons they exposed to violence.
A research carried out in 2017 had shown that violence against women has increased 1400% under the AKP rule between 2002 and 2012 in Turkey.
The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP)’s Islamist and misogynist policies have resulted in an unstoppable rise in violence against women and femicide in Turkey. Ignoring the fundamental civil rights of women, the President Tayyip Erdoğan had previously stated that he does not believe in the equality of men and women, saying that "it is against nature".
