Over 100 women detained in İstanbul, two fainted after being beaten by police

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Women and LGBTI+s gathered in Tünel Square in Beyoğlu, İstanbul, to mark the International Day For The Elimination Of Violence Against Women.

The police blocked all streets leading to İstiklal Avenue, as well as to Tunnel Square and Taksim Square in the evening, shortly before the announced time of the demonstration. The district governor yesterday (November 25) declared a demonstration ban.

After blocking the streets, police officers told journalists who wanted to pass through that "it was especially banned for journalists."

Women led by the November 25 Women's Platform gathered in Asmalımescit attempted to march towards Tünel Square at 6.30 p.m., chanting the slogans, "Go down with your bans," "Jiyan azadi," and "Let the father come, let the husband come, let the state come, let the batons come."

Women in Tünel Square:

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Police did not let them march and surrounded several women among the crowd before battering and detaining them.

The detainess include Yaren Çolak, an editor for the daily BirGün.

Surrounded by the police, the women read out a statement for the press and recited the names of the women killed by male violence.

The crowd then headed to the Karaköy quarter on the seaside, where they opened a banner that read, "Women are resisting from Rojava to Rojhilat," referring to the Kurdish regions of Syria and Iraq.

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Torture: Two women fainted

Police responded brutally to a group of women who wanted to read out a statement for the press at the Haliç Bridge near Karaköy. Eleven women were detained. Two women fainted after beign beaten by officers.

More than 100 women have been detained, organizers of the demonstration said.

(EMK/TY/VK)