In this episode, we reconsider the relation between gender and justice with historian Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik, feminist lawyer Meriç Eyüboğlu, and journalist rights defender Berrin Sönmez. 

Here are some of the questions we raise in the episode:

What were women who aspire to divorce doing in the Ottoman period? Under which circumstances violence against women was permissible under Islamic law? What is the relationship between the class aspect of violence and divorce? What sort of continuities are there in divorce processes? Does the Treaty of Istanbul carry the potential of breaking this continuity? What role do the members of the judiciary play in the continuation of gendered injustices?