The Women Entrepreneurs Association of Turkey (KAGIDER) has prepared a report documenting the financial, social and psychological effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic on women entrepreneurs in Turkey.

Having killed her husband by using her right of self-defense in the face of his violence on her and her children, Melek İpek had her first hearing. The court board has ruled that she shall remain behind bars.

We have spoken with friends of Asya, 18, a trans woman from Syria, who is under treatment after being attacked with acid.

Meeting upon the call of Bingöl Bar Association, the chairs of 14 bar associations in Turkey’s eastern provinces have raised concerns about the ongoing hunger strikes in Turkey’s prisons and male violence against women.

Referring to the Human Rights Action Plan unveiled by Turkey, the HRW has called on the authorities to immediately put a stop to the criminal investigation opened into women’s rights activists for shouting slogans at the March 8 assembly in İstanbul.

The child’s attorney Elif Tuğba Şahin says that both her client and his family are really sad and afraid that the other suspect has been released on probation: “They are worried about their life safety.”

Detained and summoned to depose for joining the Feminist Night March in İstanbul on March 8, 18 women have been released on probation.

Having sexually assaulted a trans woman in İstanbul last week, Harun S. has been released from detention. Lawyer Levent Pişkin has protested the decision.

Charged with "insulting the President" due to their slogans, 12 women have been taken into custody in İstanbul over the Feminist Night March held in the city on March 8 International Women’s Day. They have been referred to the prosecutor's office.

Attorney Şahin says that before the child was battered with sticks and iron bars, one of the suspects said to him, “Pull down your trousers, we will make the payment like that.”

HDP MP Kılıç Koçyiğit has asked why the Interior Ministry’s Women’s Emergency Support (KADES) application does not have the Kurdish option while it is now offering services in Turkish, Persian, Arabic, English, Russian and French.

Canan Güllü, a women's rights activist and the head of Federation of Women Associations of Turkey (TKDF), has been granted the award in an online ceremony attended by US Secretary of State Antony Blanken as well.

A Parliamentary Commission will be established to “investigate the reasons behind violence against women and to specify the necessary measures to be taken.”

"We know that as we empower one another, patriarchy, homophobia, transphobia, male violence will go away, we will stay!" says the organizers of the night march.

Feminists in the capital city of Ankara met in Sakarya Avenue for March 8 International Women’s Day, chanting the slogans, “Jin, jiyan, azadi”, “Don’t hush, but shout: Trans people exist” and “The world will be shaken if women are free.”

Women met in Balıkesir’s Ayvalık district for March 8 International Women’s Day. “We will never look down while the perpetrators of feminicides are free outside and the male state draws the boundaries of the ‘acceptable woman’,” said women.

According to a report prepared by CHP MP Tanrıkulu, men earn 31 percent more than women in Turkey, which shows the gender inequality in income.

The İstanbul mayor and the former HDP co-chair have marked Women's Day on Twitter.

Hundreds of women have held the 19th night march marking Women's Day.

"Woman is primarily the mother and the child's first homeland," the president has said, marking the Women's Day at his party's women's branch congress.