136 women killed in Turkey by men in first half of 2025: rights group

A leading women’s rights organization in Turkey reported on Monday that 136 women were killed by men in the first six months of 2025, a figure...

Pregnant woman subjected to sexual harassment and insults by prosecutor during interrogation

Nigar Kocabaş, a pregnant woman who in 2016 was interrogated by Chief Public Prosecutor İbrahim Keskin in the northern Turkish city of Samsun for...

Activists call on Turkish government to take effective measures against femicide

Women's rights activists have started a new campaign against femicide in Turkey, calling on authorities to be more effective in preventing femicide and protecting...

Turkey records five femicides in two days

A total of five women were killed by their family members over the last two days, while another woman was stabbed and injured, the...

Top court finds reduced sentence for man who killed woman for rejecting proposal ‘reasonable’

A board at the Supreme Court of Appeals has found the reduction of a sentence given to a man who was convicted of the...

Female journalists in Turkey face discrimination and harassment at work, says media association

Female journalists in Turkey face problems at work, ranging from unequal pay to sexual harassment, most frequently seen in local media outlets, according to...

I wasn’t allowed to breastfeed my twins, says woman unlawfully arrested over alleged Gülen...

“I wasn’t allowed to breastfeed my twin babies and had to throw away my breast milk during the time I was in police custody,”...

25 women in Turkey victims of femicide in March

A total of 25 women were murdered in Turkey in March, while 19 women died under suspicious circumstances, the Duvar news website reported. Among those...

Turkey’s state-run broadcaster assigns female employee to work under executive she accused of sexual...

Public broadcaster Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) has assigned a female employee as a subordinate of an executive she has accused of systematic...

Uzbek woman falls victim to femicide in Turkey

Shaknoza Kurbonova, an Uzbek woman living in İstanbul, was stabbed to death by a man during an argument, the Artı Gerçek news website reported...
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