The trial of one of the main and most active associations for the defense of women's rights in Turkey, accused of "
immoral
" activities, was postponed Wednesday to September 13, noted an AFP journalist.
The trial began last June.
This was the third hearing before a court in Istanbul, followed by representatives of several European consulates (Norway, Finland, Ireland, France).
“Activities against law and morals”
An Istanbul prosecutor decided in April 2022 to sue the "
We Will Stop Feminicide
" platform, which regularly denounces violence against women, and to request its dissolution for "
activities against law and morals
".
Dozens of protesters had gathered in front of the court to denounce this trial under banners claiming "
The platform will not stop, the murders of women must
".
According to the platform that keeps the count, at least 327 women were killed in 2022 and 793 injured in Turkey, the majority of them by family members.
The association, founded in 2010, has organized numerous demonstrations for the maintenance of Turkey in the Istanbul Convention, an international treaty establishing the legal and institutional framework for the fight against gender-based violence, from which the country has withdrawn. in 2021.
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The Turkish government justified its decision to abandon the treaty by accusing it of encouraging homosexuality and threatening the traditional family structure.
Nursel Inal, one of the leaders of the platform founded in 2010, had denounced a political trial when it opened.
"
There is a very organized women's movement in Turkey and we believe this trial is an attack on women's struggle for their rights
," she told AFP.
At the origin of the trial, complaints filed by individuals who accused the members of the association of "
destroying the family on the pretext of defending women's rights
".
More than 300 lawyers from all over Turkey have offered their services to defend the platform.
One of them, Aysun Kilic, from the Kocaeli Bar (north-west), paid tribute to the counting work done by the platform, considering that it was normally “the duty
of the State
”.
