Kadina Yönelik Şiddetin Tarihi
The History of Violence Against Women

Summary/Abstract: Violence is as old as human history. Yet, awareness on fighting violence against women found a place to itself quite late in the litterature. Although Tekeli emphasizes structural social and cultural formations, in terms of questioning the production of violence against women, women movements had a crucial role. The situation is not unique to Turkey; patterns are quite similar all over the world. As the twentieth century wound down, in a globalized world, violence producing both terrorist acts seen on national and international scales, and violence against women and children within the very basic unit of society -the family- indicate that individuals, intrinsically, generate their own relationships on the ground of conflicts. Scattered attacks, violent rituals continue to occur, but they produce only small shares of total damage from collective violence. Broken negotiations and coordinated destruction fluctuate and interact as sources of most immediate damage to women and children. Although, especially, tremendous advances of humanity in information and communication technologies, the tension of the individual in him/herself is a contradiction. In this paper, we are particularly keen to focus on the approach of the TGNA (Turkish Grand National Assembly), a decision-making place at the national level. Through exceeding the laws that the assembly, responsible for "making laws", has done on this issue and analysis of these laws, this paper intends to measure the debates around these laws and, in this way, to better understand the perceptions of the legislators. Analysis and solutions to fight violence against women are not independent from decision-makers and political decision-making mechanism. In this paper, violence against women is going to be evaluated in an integrative approach. Institutional structures that have emerged in the legislature and their impact on the matter will be analyzed.

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