21/10/2025 | Writer: Kaos GL
Speaking at her party’s group meeting, Hatimoğulları said: “The government’s judicial packages bring more pressure, coercion, punishment, surveillance, and domination upon society.”
Co-Chair of the DEM Party, Tülay Hatimoğulları, spoke at her party’s group meeting. Hatimoğulları reacted to the judicial package that includes anti-LGBTI+ provisions, saying: “Instead of providing society with greater trust, resolution, justice, and human rights, the government’s judicial packages bring pressure, coercion, more punishment, more surveillance and control, and more domination.”
Saying “We are facing a new AKP tactic,” Hatimoğulları emphasized that the judicial package would bring repression and punishment, and continued:
“We are facing a new AKP tactic. They leak regulations to the press that will agitate society’s nerves. We see the latest example of this in the draft leaked to the public under the name of the ‘11th Judicial Package.’ Instead of providing society with greater trust, resolution, justice, and human rights, the government’s judicial packages bring pressure, coercion, more punishment, more surveillance and control, and more domination. In this draft reflected to the public, there is not a single article that addresses society’s need for justice and democracy; on the contrary, there is persistence in anti democratic regulations.”
Hatimoğulları continued her remarks as follows:
“It is not the state’s business to interfere with how people define themselves or how they live. It is by no means the state’s duty to impose an identity, belief, gender, or lifestyle on anyone. The very reason for the state’s existence is to equally protect the rights of every person living under its roof. The duty of the state is not to punish this diversity, but to guarantee it. Every citizen, regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity, belief, language, or culture, has the right to live with equal rights and dignity. Just as no one comments on or interferes with how you live, you too cannot interfere with anyone else. Look: 76% of society says ‘the economy is getting worse,’ and 70% says ‘democracy and the judiciary are deteriorating.’ The central government’s duty is to address these pressing issues. But the ruling power is instead pursuing laws and narratives that interfere with people’s lifestyles, paving the way for hate crimes. The laws you pass may create new grounds for prosecution, but they cannot solve a single social problem; nor are they legitimate. We need law and justice as much as we need bread and water. Look, millions are saying ‘Justice for Rojin Kabaiş,’ ‘Justice for Hakan Tosun.’”
Tags: human rights, women, life, family, trans, lgbti
