Turkish court gives suspended sentences to 2 police officers for unlawful strip-searches
A Turkish court has handed down suspended sentences to two female police officers for conducting an unlawful strip-search of prominent architect Mücella Yapıcı and...
46 women sought protection from platform against violence in January
The We Will Stop Femicide Platform (Kadın Cinayetlerini Durduracağız) has revealed that 46 women asked for their help in January, claiming they were victims...
One in eight women in Turkey have faced physical violence in their lifetime: report
One in eight women in Turkey have experienced physical violence at some point in their lives, according to a nationwide, government-backed study on violence...
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...
Top court refuses to annul Turkey’s Istanbul Convention withdrawal
The highest body of Turkey’s top administrative court, the Council of State, has ruled that a decision by its 10th Chamber to reject a...
At least 80 pregnant women detained or arrested in Turkey’s post-coup crackdown
At least 80 pregnant women have been arbitrarily detained or arrested over their suspected links to the Gülen movement, which is accused by 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...
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...
Erdoğan will withdraw Turkey from İstanbul Convention, opposition politician claims
A politician from Turkey’s right-wing Felicity Party (SP) has claimed that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will withdraw Turkey from the İstanbul Convention, a...
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...
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