Abstract

Although the AKP government has made much legal and political progress on women’s rights, such as becoming the first government to ratify the Istanbul Convention, crimes against women in Turkey have dramatically risen in the last two decades. This is a notable step forward on women’s rights, in particular on violence against women. However, this step backwards for women’s rights with Turkey’s withdrawal from the Convention on 1 July 2021. This paper argues to what extent the shift from Europeanization to de-Europeanization and liberalism to conservatism in Turkey after 2011 directly affects its withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention. The first part of this paper analyses how the AKP government has taken many steps legally and politically on gender equality as part of Turkey’s Europeanization and EU accession process. The second part of this paper shows that, while many women’s rights organizations and society recognize that progress has been made, the AKP government’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention reveals Turkey’s transformation from liberalism to conservatism regarding women’s rights.

摘要

尽管 AKP 政府在妇女权利方面取得了很大的法律和政治进步，例如成为第一个批准伊斯坦布尔公约的政府，但在过去二十年中，土耳其针对妇女的犯罪行为急剧上升。这是在妇女权利，特别是针对妇女的暴力行为方面向前迈出的显着一步。然而，随着土耳其于 2021 年 7 月 1 日退出《公约》，妇女权利的这一倒退。本文探讨了土耳其在 2011 年后从欧化到去欧化和自由主义到保守主义的转变在多大程度上直接影响其退出《伊斯坦布尔公约》。本文的第一部分分析了作为土耳其欧洲化和加入欧盟进程的一部分，正发党政府如何在法律和政治上就性别平等采取许多步骤。