Gülsüm Kav (born 1971) is a Turkish feminist activist, writer and doctor. She is one of the founders of the organisation We Will Stop Femicide Platform, who raise awareness of gender-based violence in

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

and campaign on behalf of the families of victims of

femicide Femicide or feminicide is the intentional murder of women or girls because of their gender.Shalva Weil, "Femicide Across Europe: Research and prevention of femicide across Europe". Research Gate, October 2018. In domestic fields, 50% percent o ...

Biography

Kav was born in 1971. She graduated from Eskişehir Anadolu University Faculty of Medicine in 1996 and in 2002 she was appointed a specialist at Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty

Deontology In moral philosophy, deontological ethics or deontology (from Greek language, Greek: and ) is the normative ethics, normative ethical theory that the morality of an action should be based on whether that action itself is right or wrong under a ...

Department. She started her career as a medical ethics specialist and continued with the Istanbul Regional Directorate Patient Rights Specialist. Since 2012, she has continued to work as a specialist at Şişli Etfal Training and Research Hospital. Kav has also worked in the Human Rights Commission in

Ankara Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and List of national capitals by area, the largest capital by area in the world. Located in the Central Anatolia Region, central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5,290,822 in its urban center ( ...

and in a variety of medical settings, including: the Forum of the

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, the Physician Forum, the Gynaecology Committee, the Ethics Committee and the Istanbul Representation of the TTB Women's Medicine Branch.

Activism

Kav, a feminist activist, is the general representative o
We Will Stop Femicide Platform
In 2014 she was elected to the Executive Board of the United June Movement. Kav has appeared in multiple media outlets discussing the problem of violence against women in Turkey. She is a writer and columnist, who has been published by organisations such as: Yarın Haber; Yeni Yaşam.

Awards

In 2020 Kav was included in the

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's annual 100 Women List.

References

External links

*TED Talk
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