Apple has removed the Hornet queer social network from AppStore Turkey “upon a court ruling.” Hornet has announced that it is trying to solve the problem in talks with the courts in Turkey and Apple.

“What measures does your Ministry take in the face of the failure to carry out or extend an investigation by considering women’s statement to be primary,” asks HDP MP Tosun to Minister of Family and Social Services Yanık.

If I am not being looked at, who could tell me that I am not behaving correctly? The stares are meant to unsettle women, serving as a daily reminder that men are the ones who make the rules and are thus the ones to ensure they are being followed.

Ümitcan U., the chief suspect of Aleyna Çakır’s death, has been taken into custody over the death of Esra Hankulu.

Briefly detained for harassing a woman employee who is not a citizen of Turkey in Kadıköy, dentist İsmail B. is now facing a lawsuit on charges of “simple sexual assault” and “damage to property”.

Lawyer O. Meriç Eyüboğlu has lashed out at the access block imposed on our 141 news reports: “We will - of course - not stay silent in the face of this censorship, this grave interference with the right to receive and report news.”

The CFWIJ has released its monthly press freedom status report: “Throughout the month of July, Georgia was the country with the highest number of physical assaults, with 14 women journalists. Turkey followed its lead by 10 female reporters.”

Men inflicted violence on at least 77 women, killed at least four children, abused at least 13 girls and boys, harassed at least 21 women, forced 36 women to sex work in July.

Put on unpaid leave by appointed rector Melih Bulu in April 2021, Cemre Baytok, the Office Coordinator of Boğaziçi University’s Commission on Prevention of Sexual Harassment (CİTÖK), has been dismissed.

Human Rights Association (İHD) Co-Chair and lawyer Eren Keskin says, “Even though there is a finding of abuse in the Forensic Medical report, the father put on trial over abuse has been released on probation.”

The CFWIJ has announced that the violence faced by women journalists in Turkey has increased by 158.82 percent when compared to the cases documented in 2020. The Coalition has launched a campaign under the hashtag #WeAreNotSafe.”

A transphobic group verbally harassed trans woman Beren Ecmel in İstanbul’s Harbiye; afterwards, they attacked her with sharp objects. Ecmel has spoken to bianet: "My life is as sacred as anyone else's. I want this to be understood."

In a joint statement, five LGBTI+ family organizations have demanded that academic and documentary filmmaker Can Candan, who has been dismissed by the appointed rector, be reinstated in his job at Boğaziçi University.

Minister of Family and Social Services Yanık has answered the Parliamentary question of main opposition CHP’s Gürer: 55,882 people, including 20,551 children, stayed in women’s shelters across the country.

Arrested for “inciting drug use” for nearly six months, Ümitcan Uygun, the chief suspect of the suspicious death of Aleyna Çakır, has been released. “Unlawfully arrested for six months, my client Ümit Uygun has been released,” his lawyer has said.

With her house raided by the police, Hatice Baykara says that “the police held a gun to her dead and hit her waist with gunstocks until the search ended.”

After his prison sentence on 3 different charges for inflicting violence on musician Sıla was overturned, actor Ahmet Kural has been once again sentenced to 1 year, 4 months, 20 days in prison. The sentence has been deferred due to “good conduct.”

The court has pronounced its detailed judgement in the trial over the feminicide of Ayşe Tuba Arslan. According to the court, a message addressing Arslan as “my dear” was a reason for reducing the prison sentence of the perpetrator.

The plan discussed by Ankara and Washington is "ill-advised" and a violation of Afghanistan's territorial integrity, according to the Taliban spokesperson.

We have talked to a Syrian LGBTI+ refugee and a volunteer of the Aman Project about the situation of LGBTI+ refugees in Turkey.