Türkiye'de kimyasal hadımın olağanüstü hali ve moleküler biyopolitika

Abstract

In February 2011, a draft law proposed by some of the women parliament members of the ruling party in Turkey, the Justice and Development Party, envisaged the application of a medical treatment in order to eliminate the sexual motivation and capacity of rape offenders to prevent the reoccurrence of rape and pedophilia in the society. While chemical castration is proposed as a solution against sex crimes, the indirect relationship among male sexuality, crime, punishment and fear comes to light. Approaching chemical castration as a cure and a radical solution is an attempt at both evaluating it within modern and humanitarian values, and presenting it as an absolute solution. However, this law draft also uncover current biopolitical governmental techiniques of power structure of Turkey.