Les discussions sur l’avortement dans Les annees 2000 en Turquie et les Approches politiques
Citation
Cansun, S. (2014). Les discussions sur l’avortement dans Les annees 2000 en Turquie et les Approches politiques. European Scientific Journal, 10(17), 129-141.Abstract
This study aims at understanding how Turkish political parties
perceive the subject of abortion, what differences there are between the
approach of center-right and center-left parties as well as between men and
women of the same parties. The parties in question are the conservativedemocratic
AKP (the government party), the social-democratic CHP, the
ultranationalist MHP, the pro-Kurdish BDP. The study focuses on party
programs, electoral bulletins, declarations made by male and female
politicians of these parties. Declarations of politicians are studied through
Hürriyet (Liberty), a liberal national daily with an important circulation,
from the last national election in 2011 to the present day. Abortion has been
legal in Turkey since the 1980s, but the AKP brought it to Turkey’s agenda
in 2012. In the programs and electoral bulletins, the AKP and the CHP treat
the subject of birth control rather than that of abortion. The programs and the
electoral bulletins of the MHP and the BDP comprise none of these, because
they are rather pro-birth. Almost all the members of the AKP defend the
prohibition of abortion except one female deputy. The CHP is for the
legalization of abortion. The women of the CHP accuse the AKP of being
despotic on this issue. The directors of the MHP and the co-president of the
BDP do not take an open position but prefer criticizing the AKP. According
to the data, center-right and center-left parties treat the subject of abortion
differently. Some women of the center-right party position themselves to the
left of the political spectrum than the men of their own party.