In March 2022, men inflicted violence on at least 51 women, killed at least three children, abused at least 12 girls and boys, harassed at least five women and forced 93 women to do sex work in Turkey.

Housewives have the highest burden of housework and caring; 67 percent of all women and 75 percent of married women do housework alone, shows the study.

As part of a five-year plan, the government will train tens of thousands of law enforcement officers and expand police units to combat violence against women.

While most men view violence as women's most important problem in Turkey, they think they do their part regarding this issue. Women think otherwise.

Okan Alptekin, a member of the Diyarbakır Bar Association LGBTI+ Rights Commission, says that women and LGBTI+s were subjected to discrimination while entering the Newroz site in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority Diyarbakır province.

Lawyer Müjde Tozbey-Erden appeared before the judge, facing the charges of “slander and insult” in relation to a child abuse case in Konya.

33 women were charged with “violating the Law 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations”. They have been acquitted by the Ankara 28th Criminal Court of First Instance.

The principal of a secondary school in Bursa’s Osmangazi wrote to teachers: “I am asking you to show sensitivity to ensure that boys sit with boys and girls with girls”.

As part of the March 8 Women’s Day discussions of Bilgi University, Prof. Ferida Acar, lawyer Hülya Gülbahar from the EŞİK platform, journalist-writer Berrin Sönmez and Bilgi University faculty member Prof. Turgut Tarhanlı addressed the audience.

Put on trial for “sexually assaulting” Edanur Kaplan and “driving her to suicide”, arrested defendants Yusuf G. and Mehmet A. had their fourth hearing. The court, by a majority of votes, has ruled that Yusuf G. shall be released.

Fourteen years after the first Newroz rally attended by LGBTI+ groups in Diyarbakır, LGBTI+s were attacked at the Newroz rally in Diyarbakır today (March 21).

Wounded in a bomb attack launched by ISIS in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority Diyarbakır 7 years ago, Lisa Çalan, making a speech in Kurdish, dedicated the award to the deceased and wounded in the massacres on June 5, in Suruç and Ankara.