Urfa Public Prosecutor's Office finds Mehmet E.’s “sexual assault” against a woman named N.E. “tolerable” and is not taking a single action regarding her demand for justice. No, we are not accepting that!

Women in İkizdere have said, "We are determined, we will resist" and added: "Our President should come and see our situation. We do not do politics, we are defending our living space.”

It has been 500 days since university student Gülistan Doku went missing in Dersim province. Women have protested in the place where she was seen for the last time and reiterated the question: “Where is Gülistan Doku?”

The Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Court of Cassation previously appealed against the life sentence given to Nevin Yıldırım for “killing” Nurettin Gider, who had sexually assaulted her. The lawyers have demanded “urgent release.”

The administration of the Ankara Sincan No. F2 Prison found the questions sent to academic and LGBTI+ activist Cihan Erdal for an interview for bianet “objectionable” and did not give the questions to Erdal.

“We reiterate that withdrawing from the İstanbul Convention by a Presidential Decision is against the law, the Constitution and international treaties,” reads the joint statement of 78 bar associations across Turkey.

As part of a lawsuit filed against Turkey’s withdrawal from the İstanbul Convention by a Presidential decision, the Council of State has asked the Presidency for defense regarding the reasons behind this decision as to both merits and procedure.

Making a statement on the 10th anniversary of the İstanbul Convention on May 11, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Callamard said, “Withdrawal would spell uncertainty, fear and real danger for millions of women and girls in Turkey.”

Appealing to the Council of State, the Turkish Medical Association (TTB) has demanded the annulment of the Presidential decision pulling Turkey out of the İstanbul Convention, which was opened for signature in İstanbul 10 years ago yesterday.

HDP’s women MPs took action in İstanbul and Diyarbakır on the 10th anniversary of the İstanbul Convention's opening for signature. The MPs said, “It cannot be revoked because a single man said so, women have not said their last word yet.”

The Ankara embassies of 19 countries have released a joint statement on the 10th anniversary of the İstanbul Convention: "We would like to express our sincere hope that the Turkish government would reconsider its withdrawal decision."

On the 10th anniversary of the signature of the İstanbul Convention, the Women’s Platform for Equality has released a report documenting the incidents of male violence since the Presidential decision pulling Turkey out of the convention.

Lawyers appealed the Selçuk Civil Court of First Instance's decision to give the child to the abusive father, despite being documented by reports. However, the appeal was not accepted.

The first quarterly report of the Coalition for Women in Journalism (CFWIJ) has shown that a total of 114 women journalists have been attacked and threatened in the country since the beginning of 2021.

Men inflicted violence on at least 68 women and killed at least one child. Abusing at least eight children, including boys, men also harassed at least eight women and forced at least 58 women to sex work.

In the face of the Presidential Decision pulling Turkey out of the İstanbul Convention as per the Article 3 of the Presidential Decree no. 9, women keep on saying, “İstanbul Convention is ours, we don’t give it up.”

The male passenger who harassed teacher G.E. by taking her picture on a plane from Barcelona to İstanbul in March 2019 appeared before the judge at the İstanbul Anadolu 5th Penal Court of First Instance in Kartal.

Not given an equal seat with European Council President Michel and Erdoğan during their visit to Turkey’s Presidency, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said that she felt “hurt and left alone” as “a woman and as a European”.

Sibel G. says that she was subjected to psychological and physical violence by her husband during their marriage, he is still harassing her after divorce: “I don’t want to entrust my child even for a day to a person who doesn’t fulfill his responsibilities.”

Arrested pending trial for killing her husband who was systematically inflicting violence on her, Melek İpek has been released.