Turkey cannot protect women who apply to institutions after they have been exposed to violence because the state does not provide safety of life. Four women ...»

The trial of Ayşe Yılbaş who was murdered by her angry husband Hüseyin Güneş Özmen was postponed again because of Medical Examiner’s inability to send the ...»

Italian artist Pippa Bacca’s murder trial is postponed to January 20 to wait for the needed documents. The women’s organizations are still denied to take part ...»

After dispersing their panel by force, the police did not let the women march on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, either. ...»

The Democratic Women’s Movement held a press release to announce the campaign they would launch for the November 25 International Day for the Elimination of Violence ...»

The November 25 Women’s Platform organized an exhibition composed of objects symbolizing and the pictures showing the violence against women, but the exhibition was ended by ...»

The second hearing of the case regarding the murder of Italian artist Pippa Bacca by Murat Karataş was held today. The accused admitted his quilt. The ...»

The women of the Women Workers Association (EKD) condemned the attack of the male prisoners on the female prisoners. ...»

Özlem Arslan, a young woman from Ağrı in the eastern Turkey, was murdered two hours after her divorce. The reason for her divorce was her husband’s ...»

The trial of the murderer of Pippa Bacca, who was killed during her hitchhiking trip to Israel for “peace”, has begun today. Her mother says she ...»

Petty Officer Hüseyin Güneş Özmen’s trial for murdering his wife, intern doctor Ayşe Yılbaş, has been postponed to November 7, since neither him nor his report ...»

A member of the Supreme Curt of Appeals 1st Penal Chamber, announced that he would require there to be a “family council decision” in a murder ...»

Accused Mustafa Karataş for the murder of Pippa Bacca, the Italian artist and peace activist, will face life sentence without parole. Bicca was hitchhiking from Milan ...»

Following the Democratic Society Party and the Republican People’s Party, the Justice and Development Party introduces a bill that will make “sexual harassment” a crime not ...»

The Petty Officer who killed his wife Ayşe Yılbaş, an intern doctor, claims he was not stable mentally during the murder. The women’s organizations were not ...»

Six UN organs got together in a public announcement to emphasize how the violence against women can easily include a dimension of torture and they demanded ...»

The court rejects the application by women’s organizations to join the trial process because they did not experience any damage. The women say they will continue ...»

The court will discuss the request by Purple Roof Women’s Shelter to join the court process on June 12. The women’s organizations say that they take ...»

The prosecutor releases the husband who gave a beating to his wife for not conceiving a son. Lawyer Moroğlu says that this is against the new ...»

Tilila, one of the first shelters for women victims of violence, highlights the contradictions persisting in the Moroccan judicial system. ...»

Ten-year conflict between armed Islamists and the civil army continue victimizing Algerian women in extreme ways. The violence of Islamists started in 1992, when Algerians discovered ...»

Amnesty International presents its yearly report. With the freedom of expression violations, the Dink murder, the Malatya massacre, the police violation and the like, the section ...»

Ayşe Yılbaş and her mother appealed to the authorities many times for protection. Ironically, the accused husband managed to get protection for himself at the first ...»

The Feminist Kollektif (Feminist Collective) sat in front of the Galatasaray High School in protest of the murder of Pippa Bacca. “We are sad, we are ...»