Turkish Women Politicians Demand Role in Peace Process, Not Just ‘Conscience’

Following the passage of a framework law in the Turkish Parliament, female lawmakers are pushing back against being sidelined in the implementation phase. Elif Esen, Sevda Karaca, and Meral Danış Beştaş argue that peace cannot be reduced to a mere silencing of weapons. They insist that women must hold equal decision-making power, rather than being assigned a symbolic role as the “conscience of the process.”