ANKARA - In the Election Declaration of the Green Left Party Women's Assembly, it was emphasized that women will change the administrations that impose oppression and violence, and the message "We are coming to put an end to male-state violence" was given.

 

The Greens and Left Future Party (Green Left Party) Women's Council announced the Election Declaration for the elections to be held on May 14 at a launch event in a hotel in Ankara. The election slogan is “Dîsa jin, dîsa jiyan(Again Women, Again Life)” in Kurdish and “We are here, we will replace it with women” in Turkish.

 

Peoples' Democratic Congress (HDK) Co-Spokesperson Esengül Demir, Green Left Party Co-Spokesperson Çiğdem Kılıçgün Uçar, Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Pervin Buldan, Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Co-Chair Saliha Aydeniz, Socialist Re-Liberation Party (SYKP) ) Co-Chair Canan Yüce, Spokesperson of the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) Çiçek Otlu, Chairman of the Revolutionary Party Elif Torun Öneren, Günay Demirbaş from SODAP, Fatma Aytaç from the Women's Party, Berivan Dal from the KDP-T, Fidan from the EHP Ataselim, İlke Işık from EMEP, Peace Mothers, Kurdish Women's Association, Democratic Women's Movement, Rosa Women's Association, Women's Time Association, Star Women's Association, Women's Solidarity Foundation, Women's Labor Platform, Federation of Women's Associations, KESK, İHD and many civilians. A representative of the community organization attended the launch event.

 

THE PROMISES OF THE WOMEN'S COUNCIL

 

WE WILL CHANGE THE OPPRESSED GOVERNMENT WITH WOMEN

 

The Election Declaration, which includes the promises of the Green Left Party, is as follows: “We are coming to put an end to male-state violence. We will not allow another person to be added to the femicides this spring. We will replace the administrations that impose violence and oppression on women with men's power, judiciary, media, all institutions, with women.

 

* We will bring back the Istanbul Convention and implement the law no. 6284.

 

* We will re-establish our multilingual ALO Violence Hotlines.

 

* We will provide services in the mother tongue in the mechanisms that women who experience violence will apply.

 

* In violence against women, we will take the woman's statement as a basis from the moment of application.

 

* We will aim to appoint female law enforcement officers, women judges and prosecutors who are experts in the field of violence in the application, investigation and trial processes.

 

* We will organize regular gender equality trainings for all civil servants working in the field of violence against women.

 

* We will open shelters under the Ministry of Women and local governments in every city.

 

* We will create free living spaces for women who are exposed to violence.

 

* We will not allow reductions by clearly defining violence against women in the constitution.

 

* We will take the necessary legal measures to prevent early marriages.

 

* We will mobilize the public budget against all-round violence against women during natural disasters.

 

WE WILL APPLY THE PRINCIPLES OF EQUAL REPRESENTATION

 

We will replace women with women to end women's poverty! We; We are coming to prevent women's poverty against the exploitation of women's labor in the field, at work, at home, in short everywhere. We will replace the sexist division of labor that exploits women's labor with women, even in times of natural disasters!

 

* We will put an end to the sexist division of labor, discrimination, mobbing and inequalities in the workplace.

 

* We will bring social security and retirement rights to all women by nationalizing care services.

 

* We will ensure gender equality in employment and expand women's employment areas.

 

* We will implement the 'equal pay for equivalent work' practice in all business lines.

 

* We will ratify and implement ILO Convention 190 on Violence and Harassment throughout the country.

 

* We will support women's cooperatives and producers against women's unemployment and poverty.

 

* We will apply the principle of equal representation in unions.

 

* We will declare March 8 a public holiday.

 

* We will take the necessary measures to eliminate discrimination against women, LGBTI+s and refugees who have different mother tongues, identities, beliefs or cultures in the workplace.

 

* We will implement social support packages for women in a way that respects social justice and gender equality.

 

* We will ensure safe work and improvement of living conditions for seasonal agricultural workers.

 

END PRIVATE WAR POLICIES

 

We are coming to put an end to private war politics. As women, we will not give up the fight against those who try to break women's will through methods such as spying, drug abuse, and digital harassment. We will end the special war policies that try to control women's lives and replace them with women!

 

* We will initiate a trial process against all law enforcement officers who have committed these crimes.

 

* We will build Women's Specialized Courts.

 

* We will carry out self-defense activities against special war policies within the women's centers affiliated to the Ministry of Women and local governments.

 

* We will establish a control and prevention network against substance abuse.

 

* We will carry out awareness studies on special warfare methods.

 

WE WILL CHANGE THE VIOLENCE REGIME WITH WOMEN

 

We will replace them with women to end hate crimes. The government declares anyone who opposes it to be an enemy. Laws and courts do not protect victims, but perpetrators and gangs. Violence has now spread to the streets, homes, transportation vehicles, schools, televisions, disaster areas, stadiums and in short, every area of our lives. We will replace this regime of violence targeting our lives with women!

 

* We will put an end to basic human rights violations such as torture, isolation, executions, naked search, bans of sight, exile in prisons.

 

* We will eliminate all kinds of inequality and discrimination against LGBTI+s.

 

* We will make new regulations in the Turkish Penal Code to prevent hate crimes based on nationality, religion, language, belief, disbelief, sexual orientation and gender identity, and refugees.

 

* We will make the textbooks and education curriculum gender sensitive.

 

WE WILL END THE STATE MONOPOLY

 

We come for libertarian secularism. The AKP government is trying to put women's lives under pressure with the understanding of "acceptable women" it imposes on us. Whereas, we women want to decide for ourselves about our lives. We will replace this order of oppression with women to live in a country where our freedom is not restricted!

 

* We will not allow them to separate us as acceptable/not acceptable women.

 

* We will not submit to any domination over our body, labor, identity and life.

 

* We will end the state monopoly of beliefs. We will implement the understanding of liberal secularism.

 

WE WILL CHANGE FOR DISABLED LIFE

 

We will replace it with women for a barrier-free life. Women with disabilities face multiple discrimination due to both their disability and gender inequalities.

 

We will replace the ideology of robustness in social life and politics with women!

 

* We will implement policies that will ensure the rights and freedoms of women with disabilities.

 

* We will ensure that fifty percent of disabled employment quotas are reserved for women.

 

* We will ensure that women with disabilities benefit from support in natural disasters.

 

* We will arrange for the "Women's Policies Department", which will serve under the "Ministry of Removing Barriers" to be established, to develop policies for solutions to the problems of women with disabilities.

 

WE TURN THE WORLD WITH OUR WORK

 

We are coming for our social rights. We, women, turn the world with our labor. We will take from male-dominated powers, we will replace them with women to get our rights!

 

* We will turn cities into areas where women can socialize easily and feel safe.

 

* We will solve the housing problems of young women and enable them to continue their education and life without being dependent on anyone.

 

* We will implement a secure living budget for women.

 

* We will make the necessary changes so that women who are divorced and whose spouses are in prison can benefit from the support offered to women whose husbands have died.

 

* We will open care homes for the elderly and disabled so that women can get rid of the burden of care, and create the conditions for free service.

 

WE WILL CHANGE THE DISASTER GOVERNMENT OF THE CENTURY

 

* We will prepare gender-focused disaster management plans in all our cities.

 

* We will carry out search/rescue efforts multilingual and gender oriented.

 

* While organizing post-disaster assembly areas, we will create separate living units for women living alone.

 

* We will implement policies that will enable women to receive psycho-social support.

 

* With short, medium and long-term plans, we will build purple living spaces together so that women can adapt to life again.

 

* Together, we will develop policies that will protect the lives of children who are lost or left unaccompanied in disasters.

 

BUILDING ECOLOGICAL CITIES OF WOMEN

 

We are coming to put an end to anti-nature policies. We will replace the anti-nature policies of rent and plunder with women!

 

* While defending the rights of nature, we will continue to consider the struggle for ecology together with the struggle against sexism.

 

* We will support the establishment of ecological villages and cooperatives for agricultural production in local governments.

 

* Together we will build cities where women and girls can be liberated.

 

* We will build “ecological women's cities” based on participatory and on-site transformation, instead of the concrete cities built by the power of disaster through profiteering transformation.

 

THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM SECULAR EDUCATION

 

We will replace them with women for a liberal secular education! We will create an education perspective that is equidistant from the languages, beliefs, disbeliefs, gender and sexual orientations, lifestyles and worldviews of all women and girls. We will replace them with women so that all women enjoy the right to education equally!

 

* We will implement free, gender-equal, scientific and democratic education in the mother tongue.

 

* We will take it as a basis for female students to receive education in the neighborhoods and villages they live in. In places where transportation is mandatory, we will ensure that the shuttles are free of charge.

 

* We will reorganize the education system according to the understanding of liberal secularism; We will add the Gender Equality course as a compulsory course to the curriculum.

 

* We will create free dormitories including food and internet for female students and scholarship opportunities for those in need.

 

* Together with women, we will create life-long academic, cultural-artistic, social, economic, educational and health programs for women and training based on local needs.

 

* We will organize training programs for women in their mother tongue.

 

WE WILL OPEN THE HEALTH CENTERS OF WOMEN

 

We are coming for the right to equal, non-discriminatory and unprivileged health. We will replace sexist and expensive health policies with women!

 

* We will create a democratic health system in which women will have a say in their own health for the planning, implementation and supervision of health services.

 

* Together with our local governments, we will open 'Women's Health Centers' in every neighborhood.

 

* We will make reproductive health services, contraception and abortion accessible and free. We will take the woman's abortion decision and statement as the basis.

 

* We will ensure that the health expenses for the needs of gender identities are covered free of charge.

 

* We will include the HPV vaccine in the routine vaccines system for cervical cancer.

 

* We will create the necessary conditions for refugee/migrant women to benefit from their right to access health services without an identity number.

 

WE ARE TOGETHER TO THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC

 

We will replace it with women for a war-free and unlimited life. We will replace this country, where refugee and migrant women and girls are discriminated against by the male-dominated system, culturally, class, and ethnically, with women!

 

* We will provide healthy, safe and accessible shelter to refugee/migrant women.

 

* We will create safe and secure employment areas for migrant workers.

 

* We will provide social support to unemployed migrant women whose age and health conditions are not suitable for work.

 

* We will implement regulations that include heavy penal sanctions against all kinds of attacks and violence against immigrant women.

 

We are here, marching to the Democratic Republic together with women in the spring of 2023! We are coming to change together with our words, our zılgıt, our hope, our smile!”

 

The launch event ended with all the women taking pictures together on stage with the slogan "Jin jiyan azadi".