The YPJ Information and Documentation office published a report called “Femicide in Turkey under AKP rule” using data from two different sources, the Anıt Sayaç archive and the ‘We Will Stop Femicide Platform’ (KCDP).

The report pointed out that “the AKP government’s policies of the past 20 years have explicitly aimed at getting women to marry young, and pushing them to have many children. When the perpetrator is, in most cases, the husband or ex-husband, putting psychological pressure on women to get married means putting them even more at risk. Furthermore, political efforts are aimed at preventing women from having a job outside the home, to the extent that working women are blamed for the rise in unemployment. All this, if compared with the data of this study, makes us understand how the AKP government is among the infrastructural causes of these feminicides.”

The report underlined that “another of the main reasons why feminicides are on the rise so drastically is that following the reports of violence, safety measures for  victims are scarce.”