Twitter has also been used to reach out to more audiences and gain supporters for online petitions that call for women’s rights, especially regarding violence. Sharing the online petition links on social media increases the number of signers within Turkey and globally. This way the process of completing the required number of signatures for a petition is accelerated. Especially after Aslan’s case, online petitions and the call for support have been amplified, such as “an online petition for a bill designed to curb violence against women …show more content…
These celebrities utilized their talents to expose a topic that is stigmatized for stage performance, and even casual conversation with peers. Their pursuits to shine a light on the darkness and evil behind GBV in Turkey has helped educate more of the population in regard to what goes on behind closed doors. Their performance shows how, as a community, they can come together to bring attention to GBV. There are also several platforms—a network of women across Turkey who are fighting for change—in existence. One of them is the Stop Women Murders Platform. They make documentary films such as Dying to Divorce to attract more supporters to help the women in Turkey fight for justice. They include English subtitles on their films, so more people around the world can be knowledgeable about what is happening in regards to GBV in Turkey.
Cell phone social media apps have made it even easier to access help for domestic violence. A revolution in solutions to helping GBV sufferers is the Turkish Easy Rescue app, which allows women to seek help by connecting them to emergency services and government hotlines without notifying their attacker that they have called for help. The apps function is subtle. All a woman has to do to activate the app is shake her phone. The app has proven to be a success; so far “at least 100,000 women have used Easy Rescue and more than 250,000 have downloaded it”(Jackson, Fortune 2015). However, in