The research of suicide events whitin the context of gender: The example of Antalya province

Suicide is one of the significant social problems with its social, psychologic, economic, cultural, medical etc. dimensions. In this study it is aimed to research relationship between the suicide case and gender which is socially constructed and it is intended to analyse the data in the context of gender to reveal socio-demographic characteristics and to evaluate incoming suicide and suicide attempt case calls to Antalya 112 Emergency Call Center which has given emegency service in Antalya provincial borders in 2015. In this research 764 suicide, suicide attempt case forms and voice recordings were analyzed by the content analysis technique. Despite the fact that females attempt suicide more than males, it is clearly understood from the acquired data that males complete the suicide four times more than females. The data related to Antalya shows similarities to Turkey and other societies which proves thesis "males suicide, females attempt suicide". In this study it is found out that deaths resulting from usage of guns, which is accepted masculine behavioural pattern, occurs more in males and suicide by taking overdose medicine that is a passive method is more common among the females. Also it is observed that reasons of suicide and suicide attempts are changed according to the gender, as majority of suicide and suicide attempts are females because of domestic violence and males in all suicide or suicide attempt due to the financial difficulties or economic failures. Consequently this research which study relationship between suicide and gender has shown that although it is seemed as a personal construction both female and male choose to claim his/her life even decide how to put an end to his/her life by inspired of ritualised references and public gained acceptance. In fact from the research data it is clearly understood how all this process was affected by the patriarchal system and gender regime.