- summary
- Prosecutors filed a dissolution lawsuit against We Will Stop Femicide Platform — Turkey's most prominent women's rights organization, which had led the campaign opposing Turkey's withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention in 2021. The lawsuit cited the organization's activities as contrary to public morality and Turkish family values. The organization continued operating through the litigation. The dissolution lawsuit was ultimately dismissed by court ruling on September 13, 2023 — but the three-year-plus litigation imposed significant financial, legal, and reputational costs on the organization and created sustained uncertainty about its legal status.
- country
- Turkey
- date text
- 01/06/2022
- entities
- Public Prosecutors; Ministry of Interior
- entity type
- Judiciary; State
- id
- 1129
- name
- Public Prosecutors; Ministry of Interior
- role
- actor
- We Will Stop Femicide Platform (Kadin Cinayetlerini Durduracagiz Platformu)
- entity type
- CSO
- id
- 1130
- name
- We Will Stop Femicide Platform (Kadin Cinayetlerini Durduracagiz Platformu)
- role
- target
- Public Prosecutors; Ministry of Interior
- sources
- citation
- TUSEV CSO Monitoring Matrix Turkey 2022-2023; court records
- tactics
- Dismantlement through Professional Destruction
- label
- Dismantlement through Professional Destruction
- code
- TC-47
- needs review
- false
- role
- primary
- CSO Legitimacy and Mandate Attack
- label
- CSO Legitimacy and Mandate Attack
- code
- TC-40
- needs review
- false
- role
- secondary
- Dismantlement through Professional Destruction
- narratives
- Foreign Mercenary / Identity Threat
- label
- Foreign Mercenary / Identity Threat
- code
- NF-11
- needs review
- false
- role
- primary
- Sovereignty Protection / State Security Infrastructure
- label
- Sovereignty Protection / State Security Infrastructure
- code
- NF-10
- needs review
- false
- role
- secondary
- Foreign Mercenary / Identity Threat
- campaign ids
- campaign phase
- Phase 3: Enforcement Intensification
- channels
- Courts
- Prosecution
- civic response
- International feminist solidarity campaign; Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch issued alerts; Istanbul Bar Association provided pro bono representation; case dismissed September 13, 2023
- consequence category
- Organisational Dissolution Threat; Judicial Harassment; Chilling Effect
- created at
- 2026-09-24T17:50:55.358311+00:00
- date precision
- day
- escalation
- 4
- harm track
- Track 1 — Organisational Integrity
- id
- TUR-041
- institutional consequence
- Three-year dissolution proceedings against Turkey's leading women's rights organization; legal uncertainty constrained fundraising, partnerships, and programmatic activity; even after dismissal, precedent established that feminist organizations can face dissolution proceedings based on 'values' criteria
- notes
- Directly linked to Istanbul Convention withdrawal (TUR-037) — prosecutorial retaliation against leading organization in the convention campaign; dissolution dismissed but process itself used as suppression tool
- occurred on
- 2022-06-01
- trigger type
- TR-02: Civic Mobilization
- updated at
- 2026-09-24T17:50:55.358311+00:00
- version
- 1
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