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TURKEY - PANIC BUTTON PROJECT FOR
VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
This
file photo shows women staging a protest against violence in
A new project to combat domestic violence in Turkey will be started in two cities at the end of August.
A panic button pilot project will be implemented by the Ministry of Family and
Social Policies and Ministry of Interior in the northwestern
Panic buttons will be available to women local courts order protection for,
said Sevim Taşdelen, press consultant of the Ministry of Family and Social
Policies.
“The panic button will be disguised as jewelry, a phone or a watch,”
Taşdelen told the Hürriyet Daily News yesterday in a phone
interview.
The ministries have concluded their work on the proposed project, which will
also provide electronic monitoring bracelets for men who commit violence.
Call-center system
The panic buttons will be integrated into a call-center system in order to
implement the projects more effectively.
The ministries made an agreement with the GSM Company Avea to transfer the
calls from the buttons to the 155 police emergency line, she said.
Family and Social Policies Minister Fatma Şahin also said the “Alo 183”
phone line, which was developed to combat domestic violence, would be
restructured, and an agreement on the line had been made with Turkcell, adding
that the officials working in these call centers would receive special training
according to a report published yesterday by daily Zaman.
The call centers will be opened in
“The projects will be implemented particularly in provinces with strong
infrastructure and high migration rates. As part of the project, testing will
be conducted in
Şahin also announced that the civil servants at these two ministries were
working on the regulations for the implementation law and that it would be
presented to the Council of Ministers in a few days.
Şahin also stated that such projects were implemented with great success
in countries such as
Şahin’s press adviser Taşdelen said they planned to
implement the project across Turkey
in a year.