These days, you can come across a woman who is sharing a black and white photo of herself as a "challenge." If you wondered what it meant, you may want to know the feminist agenda of Turkey.
Nowadays in Turkey, hundreds of women have protested male violence across the country while saying 'we are not mourning, we are uprising!' Many people in the world started to join this black and white photo challenge. Turkish women don't want to see black and white photos of a murdered woman on their social media. They know that one day it could be their picture, so they want to show that by sharing their photos. It is not just for awareness of people, but they also want their government to implement the Istanbul Convention.
In the past nine years, the number of women killed, and suspicious female deaths, increased fourfold, according to the women’s rights platform KCDP. In 2011, 121 women were killed in Turkey, but each year the death toll rose (1). In 2019, there were at least 474 female deaths. Along the way, the government didn’t publish data on suspicious female deaths, and instead made laws that put obstacles in the way of the freedom of women in Turkey, which goes against the Istanbul Convention. Eventually, because of the increase of femicides, Turkish women started to raise their voice all around the country.