Nebahat Akkoç

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Nebahat Akkoc at the 2015 Anne Klein Women's Prize

Nebahat Akkoç (* 1956 or 1957 in Karlıova in the province of Bingol ) is a Kurdish teacher , Armenian - Alevi descent who for the she founded a women's organization Kamer has won several awards and an international reputation.

Life

Akkoç was trained as a teacher in Mardin and Manisa and worked in various schools from the 1970s to the 1990s. She became a member of the teachers' association Tüm Öğretmenler Birleşme ve Dayanışma Derneği (TÖB-DER), which was banned after the 1980 military coup . Her husband Zübeyir Akkoç was imprisoned in Diyarbakır Prison, where Nebahat Akkoç was first confronted with Kurdish illiterates of the Turkish language and their discrimination by the prison guards.

During this time Akkoç himself was arrested several times, endured torture and was sexually abused .

After the unions were legalized again in 1990 , she took over the chairmanship of the regional organization of the trade union for education and training workers Eğitim Sen between 1991 and 1993 .

In 1993 her husband was shot on the way to school, after which she withdrew from teaching and devoted himself to human rights work. She was elected to the board of İnsan Hakları Derneği from 1994 to 1996 . The following year, Nebahat Akkoç founded her own organization, the Kamer.

She has two children, her son is a doctor , the daughter a lawyer .

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"Kamer" is a Portmanteau word from Kadın and Merkezi , which together means "women's center". The organization, founded in 1997 and initially only active locally in Diyarbakir, deals on the one hand with acute assistance for women, for example in the case of domestic violence , but on the other hand also with the basic situation in patriarchy . Especially since the Turkish-Kurdish conflict has lost its intensity (around 2010), Kamer has been able to expand and spread over southeast Turkey. Emergency aid has become “help for self-help”, women from the Kamer set up companies and their own projects, and they are now also integrating men into the discourse:

“We now also have a men's group in which new role behavior is discussed. After all, it is mainly men who have to change so that violence in families finally stops. "

- Aylin

Awards ( selection )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Anne Klein Women's Award to Nebahat Akkoc, Diyarbakir, Turkey , boell.de - official website, March 6, 2015. Accessed June 14, 2015.
  2. ↑ turkey.ashoka.org/en/fellow/nebahat-akkoc , Nebahat Akkoc: The Person on the Ashoka Foundation website. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
  3. ↑ Jürgen Gottschlich: We take care of every woman who is looking for help , ver.di PUBLIK 02/2015, page 9. Accessed on June 14, 2015.
  4. ↑ schwabfound.org/nebahat-akkoc , official website of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship . Retrieved June 14, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Akkoç, Nebahat
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish suffragette
DATE OF BIRTH 1956 or 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Diyarbakir