Women and the poor most affected by human rights violations in Turkey: survey

A recent survey conducted by the Konda polling company for Turkey’s Human Rights Association (İHD) revealed that Turks believe women and low-income individuals are...

Report reveals alarming shortage of women’s shelters across Turkey

A recent report by Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Gamze Akkuş İlgezdi has revealed a critical shortage in the number and capacity of women’s...

Turkish Red Crescent official faces backlash over video targeting working women

The head of the Turkish Red Crescent branch in Kayseri province sparked a backlash after sharing a video urging President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to...

Turkish women’s rights activist to receive Germany’s Anne Klein Women’s Award 2021

Canan Arın, 78, a Turkish lawyer and women’s rights activist, has been announced as the recipient of Germany’s Anne Klein Women’s Award 2021, according...

HDP women’s committee starts campaign against sexism in parliament

The women's council of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), a left-wing party with majority Kurdish support, has initiated a signature campaign against sexist and...

Hundreds of lives could have been saved if the Istanbul Convention was properly implemented:...

At least 2,336 women who were killed by family members or people close to them would still be alive if the Istanbul Convention had...

Pro-gov’t columnist Dilipak called LGBTQ people, not women’s rights activists, ‘prostitutes,’ his lawyer claims

At a court hearing on Wednesday the lawyer for pro-government columnist Abdurrahman Dilipak said his client had not targeted women supporting the Istanbul Convention...

Turkish authorities start legal process to close down the We Will Stop Femicide Platform

Turkish authorities have started the legal process to close down women's rights organization the We Will Stop Femicide Platform (Kadın Cinayetlerini Durduracağız Platformu). The platform...

Turkish police break up Int’l Women’s Day march, detain at least 10 in İstanbul

Turkish police used pepper spray to disperse hundreds of women who had gathered in İstanbul’s Taksim neighborhood on Wednesday evening for the 21st Feminist...

Some 2,000 femicides, suspicious deaths in Turkey since withdrawal from Istanbul Convention

At least 996 women in Turkey have been killed by men since the country’s 2021 withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, an international treaty aimed...
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