Later in the feature-length documentary, the former husband explains from prison that he does not regret shooting Boztas, saying she was not a good mother to their children.
The film follows Boztas and her family, including her father who regrets having married her off at the age of 14, as they seek to ensure her ex-husband is properly prosecuted. “She was so strong in a way and so committed to rebuilding her life … I was motivated then to get her story out there.” “I had not been quite prepared for the extremity of the violence that happened to her, but I was also really struck by Arzu,” Fairweather said. Civil society in Turkey, not just women’s rights groups, have been gutted in the past five years īritish director Chloe Fairweather said she decided to make Dying to Divorce after seeing a meeting of Boztas with Kavas, the activist. One day, the husband told Boztas to send the children away, then showed up with a shotgun, made her lie on the ground and shot her at point-blank range in each arm and leg. The other is Arzu Boztas, a mother of six, who decided to divorce her husband after she learned he had raped an underage neighbour and then sought to take her as a second wife. It took years of treatment and therapy for Eken to regain some mobility and speech.
One is Kübra Eken, a television news anchor, who suffered a brain haemorrhage after her husband brutally hit her on the back of the head two days after giving birth to their first child. ‘More sincere’Īlong with seeking to point out the relationship between politics and violence against women, the 81-minute film offers a close look beyond statistics – specifically, at the painstaking physical and emotional toll on two women. The failure, they say, is a result of a top-down narrative that blames women who choose an independent life. Violence against women has often captured headlines in Turkey, but women’s rights activists say the country’s legal system has failed at following through prosecutions and sentencing of the perpetrators. So far in 2021, men in Turkey have killed 285 women, according to the platform – on course to exceed the 300 who were killed last year. The organisation also helps mobilise support for victims and apply public pressure by showing up at trials and organising rallies around cases. As the film points out, many of the victims of violence in Turkey are in fact mothers īozkurt and Kavas are part of the We Will Stop Femicides Platform, which tracks violence against women in Turkey. It follows the work of lawyer Ipek Bozkurt and activist Aysen Ece Kavas who meet women survivors of gender-based violence in order to help them and their families seek justice through a labyrinthian Turkish criminal system. Istanbul, Turkey – A documentary chronicling the efforts of activists working to end violence against women in Turkey has been chosen as the United Kingdom’s official entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the Academy Awards.ĭying to Divorce, which was produced by Turkish and British filmmakers and took five years to shoot, was released in UK cinemas last week.
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