Violence Against Women: Mor Çatı Experience

We as ESN Yeditepe are organising a webinar about violence against women. As you know, this issue is unfortunately on the rise, especially during the pandemic. Therefore, we want to raise awareness on gender equality just before March 8, International Women’s Day by hosting the distinguished Senior Psychologist and Professor at Yeditepe University, Leyla Soydinç. She will deliver a speech on the problem and her experience at Mor Çatı.

What is Mor Çatı, though? Mor Çatı Women’s Shelter Foundation was established in 1990 by feminists in order to combat violence against women. At Mor Çatı, the work against male violence is grounded in feminist principles, aiming for women to be able to build lives unhindered by gender-based discrimination and male violence under free and equal conditions.