Confederation of Public Employees' Trade Unions (KESK) member Turkey's Education and Science Workers Union (Eğitim Sen) protested the violence against women in Ankara.

Eğitim-Sen Secretary general Sakine Esen Yılmaz made a statement in front of Ankara's Human Rights Monument on March 8^th:

"Nothing has changed in women's life despite of the '"Law for the Protection of the Family and Prevention of Violence against Women " ' that was decreed by TBMM (The Grand National Assembly Of Turkey) on March 8^th, "

"The massacres, the violence against women at home, street, workplace, sexual assaults and rapes have not stopped. Neither the Law for the Protection of the Family and Prevention of Violence against Women nor the judicial decision could stop violence against women"

According to the bianet male violence report 12 women were mudered after the law had passed. Out of these women, four had been murdered despite their request for police protection.

Following the approval of Abdullah Gül, Law 6284, "Law for the Protection of Family and the Prevention of Violence against Women" was published in Official Gazette and entered into force on March 20th. (ÇT)