The Politics of Women’s Rights in Turkey with Nevsin Mengu

Hello my lovely chai drinkers! How are you? Welcome to episode 3 of season 3 of the show, coming to you from Washington, DC where the cherry blossoms and azaleas are just bursting all over the city.

As COVID continues to ravage America and the world, domestic violence is also surging. According to the American Journal of Emergency Medicine, when the pandemic began, incidents of domestic violence increased 300% in China; 25% in Argentina, 30% in Cyprus, 33% in Singapore, 50% in Brazil, and in the U.K., where calls to domestic violence hotlines soared.

The United Nations has dubbed domestic violence the shadow pandemic and reports that for women around the world, the pandemic has created a double threat– the risk of getting COVID and the danger of being trapped in lockdown with their abusers.