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Police detain 12 women’s rights activists in southeastern Diyarbakır province

Turkish police on Wednesday morning detained 12 women's rights activists in southeastern Diyarbakırprovince after raids on their homes, Turkish media reported. Adalet Kaya from the...

Academic in western Turkey shoots family members in murder-suicide

Yusuf Yılmaz, an academic working at a university in the western Turkish province of İzmir, shot his mother-in-law, his 4-year-old daughter and his wife,...

Turkish women should slam anybody who mentions Istanbul Convention: Erdoğan

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said that from now on, women in Turkey should react negatively to people who start their sentence with...

Turkish women raise their voices against possible withdrawal from Istanbul Convention

Amid the fear of Turkey’s possible withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, a Council of Europe treaty designed to prevent violence and domestic abuse against...

Turkish prosecutor requests reduced sentence for man in infamous femicide case

A Turkish prosecutor has requested a reduced sentence for Fedai Varan, who slit his ex-wife’s throat in broad daylight in 2019, the Hürriyet daily...

Female officer raped in detention by Turkish police had to abort pregnancy: report

A female officer who had served in the Turkish army had to have an abortion after she was raped in police custody, Lt. Abdulvahap...

At a time when women need protection the most, the Turkish gov’t is doing...

Withdrawing from the Istanbul Convention will have a disastrous effect on women, children and the LGBTQ+ community, said novelist Elif Şafak in a recent...

31 women in Turkey fell victim to femicide in January

A total of 31 women in Turkey were murdered by men last month, while 28 died under suspicious circumstances, according to data from the...

UN rapporteur urges Turkey to rejoin women’s treaty

The UN rapporteur on violence against women urged Turkey on Wednesday to reverse its decision to drop out of a European treaty combating gender-based...

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...

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Erdoğan says Turkey’s withdrawal from İstanbul Convention completely legal

Minister under fire for claiming ‘tolerable level’ of domestic violence during pandemic

Turkish women’s organizations say authorities turn blind eye to sexual harassment from local men but quick to blame migrants

Police detain 12 women’s rights activists in southeastern Diyarbakır province

Academic in western Turkey shoots family members in murder-suicide

Turkish women should slam anybody who mentions Istanbul Convention: Erdoğan

Turkish women raise their voices against possible withdrawal from Istanbul Convention

Turkish prosecutor requests reduced sentence for man in infamous femicide case

Female officer raped in detention by Turkish police had to abort pregnancy: report

At a time when women need protection the most, the Turkish gov’t is doing...

31 women in Turkey fell victim to femicide in January

UN rapporteur urges Turkey to rejoin women’s treaty

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

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