AKP lawmaker claims domestic violence cases in Turkey exaggerated by media

Hülya Atçı Nergis, a lawmaker from Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), has said the media is exaggerating femicides and other incidents of...

Women’s day events held amid bans, police intervention in Ankara, İstanbul

Large groups of women on Tuesday held marches to mark International Women’s Day, protesting the widespread issues of male violence and sexism in the...

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...

2 more infants join their mothers in Turkish prison as crackdown on dissidents continues

As families continue to fall victim to Turkey's post-coup purge, two more infants, 3-month-old Mehmet Mirza and 1-year-old Ahmet Ümit, joined their mothers in...

40 women in Turkey fell victim to femicide in May

Forty women were murdered by men in Turkey last month, while 22 died under suspicious circumstances, according to data from the We Will Stop Femicide Platform...

Turkey records 6 femicides in a single day

Men killed six women and severely injured one other across Turkey on Tuesday, the Evrensel newspaper reported. The femicides were reported from Denizli, İzmir, İstanbul,...

97,721 women tried on terrorism charges, 23,000 dismissed from civil service in Turkey since...

A total of 97,721 women were tried on charges of terrorism and 23,202 women have been dismissed from the civil service since a July...

Turkey’s top court says Erdoğan had right to withdraw from women’s treaty

In a move likely to spark a fresh wave of protests from women’s rights groups, Turkey’s top administrative court on Tuesday ruled that President...

İstanbul’s healthcare director calls on residents to have at least 3 children

The provincial healthcare director of Turkey’s most populous city of İstanbul has called on the city’s residents to have at least three children, echoing...
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Turkish Twitter users stand against sexual harassment and unlawful strip searches in Turkish prisons

Sexual harassment and unlawful strip-searches in Turkish prisons and detention centers were protested on Twitter on Tuesday after human rights activist and pro-Kurdish Peoples’...
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