News & Comment Turkey Trains Gendarmerie to Tackle Violence Against Women While Continuing to Insist on Implementing the Secular Liberal Freedoms that Fuels this Crime
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News The Turkish Government in cooperation with Gendarmerie has launched a project about combating domestic violence against women, which is jointly financed by the European Union and Turkey. A total of 10,000 community police will receive training on gender equality and combating violence against women in families. Human rights organizations' statistics show an increase of violence against women over a period of 8 years of AKP ruling by 1400%. Over…
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