Framing Gender-Based Violence in Turkey

Abstract

Introduction The United Nations in its General Recommendation defines gender-based violence as “violence that is directed against a woman because she is a woman or that affects women disproportionately. It includes acts that inflict physical, mental or sexual harm or suffering, threats of such acts, coercion and other deprivations of liberty.” The Declaration of the Elimination of Violence against Women in 1993, however, acknowledges gender-based violence as a manifestation of gender inequali...