| Who are we?
We are the women who had realized the violence we live and our traditional status; thus decided to quesion and change them. We share our awareness with other womne to break the rhetoric and to redefine our roles
How we got started?
Since 1984, news of dozens of cases of attck, arrest, torture and death in all parts of Turkey, but especially in the East and Southeast Anatolia regions, became the norm. Thousands of people were becoming the direct or indirect victims of violence. Worst of all was that violence was being turned into something common, something normal. We began to ponder this matter. Who were these people who beat, hung stabbed and raped othres as if doing just any common job? How had they been raised? When and how did the process by which violence becomes most common, most normalized, begin?
This curiosity led us to look into our own homes. We found that the place where violence became normalized was the home. Violence against women was continuing, a widespread state of events viewed as nothing out of the ordinary and each one of us were the victims of its practice.
The idea of initiating the work on women developed in 1994, through this questioning process. With the preparatory work and after a survey that was done in 1996, KAMER was founded in 1997.
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