The clip prepared by EDİRNE Family and Social Services Directorate on the occasion of 25 November ‘International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women’ was greatly appreciated. In the clip, women and men living in Anatolia and the Balkans said ‘No to violence against women’ with their own accents.
The clip prepared by the Press and Public Relations unit of Edirne Family and Social Services Directorate included messages against violence against women from women and men from different professions from Edirne, Bulgaria Deliorman, Erzurum, Hatay, Izmir, Romania Constanta, Diyarbakır, Antakya, Muğla and Rize. . The clip is about Press and Public Relations personnel Emre Çam and his wife İlknur Özen Çam, accompanied by the baglama accompanied by Neşet Ertaş’s song ‘If you are looking for great, mothers are great, we loved you wholeheartedly. It ended with him singing his folk song “Don’t say that the original is broken”, which includes the words “Mothers are human beings, we are human beings”.
‘WE WANTED THEM TO EXPRESS THEIR THOUGHTS LOCALLY, IN THEIR OWN DIALECT, IN THEIR OWN EXPRESSIONS.’
Provincial Director of Family and Social Services, Harun Tohumcu, said in his statement: “Every year, as a ministry, we carry out awareness activities on combating violence against women in our country and around the world. This year, our ministry is carrying out many awareness activities in this sense. As Edirne Provincial Directorate of Family and Social Services, we wanted our people living in every region of our country to express their thoughts locally, in their own dialects, in their own words, regarding the absence and end of violence against women. In this sense, we reached out to some of our citizens living in our country and the Balkans with a microphone and received their thoughts and feelings. “At the same time, we listened to women describe their place in society from a woman’s perspective,” she said. The clip, which was also published on social media platforms, received many likes and comments.
