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Family of missing Gülistan Doku to meet President Erdoğan
It has been 264 days since university student Gülistan Doku went missing in eastern Dersim province. Having met Minister of Interior Soylu yesterday, the Doku family will also meet President and ruling AKP Chair Erdoğan next week.
24 September 2020
Male violence has increased during pandemic
Conducting a survey with 1,462 women from 76 cities, the Purple Solidarity platform has raised concerns that 987 of survey participants have been subjected to male violence during the novel coronavirus pandemic.
24 September 2020
Constitutional Court: Request for removal of alimony payment inadmissible
A man had applied to the top court, requesting the removal of the indefinite alimony payment to his ex-spouse.
23 September 2020
‘De facto unemployment rate of women is 32 percent in Turkey’
In a recent report, the Women Entrepreneurs Association of Turkey (KAGİDER) has documented that the pandemic has led to a further decrease in women’s employment in Turkey, where women’s employment has dropped by 795 thousand in 3 months.
18 September 2020
Sexist, discriminatory words in Press Advertising Agency dictionaries
In three dictionaries sent by the Press Advertising Agency (BİK), a public institution, to media outlets, there are discriminating and sexist words about women, including words that the Turkish Language Association (TDK) decided to remove from its dictionaries.
17 September 2020
Man sentenced to pay record-high damages for throwing chemical in child’s face
The İstanbul Anatolian 4th Civil Court of First Instance has ruled that defendant Cihan Araçman shall pay 5 million 330 thousand lira in pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages for throwing a chemical substance in a 3-year-old child's face.
16 September 2020
PACE: Aims of İstanbul Convention intentionally distorted
The Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has reiterated its support for the İstanbul Convention in the face of countries which have opened the convention to debate, including Turkey.
16 September 2020
Access block to GaBiLe LGBTI+ dating and chat site: ‘This is censorship’
The Ankara 7th Penal Judgeship of Peace has ordered an access block to gabile.com, a dating and chat site sharing news and articles about the LGBTI+ community. Yıldız Tar from the Kaos GL Association has spoken to bianet about the block.
15 September 2020
Sakine Orman
350 women from Turkey and Greece make a call for peace
Amid escalating tensions between Turkey and Greece in the Eastern Mediterranean, 350 women from both countries, including artists Jülide Kural and Füsun Demirel, writer Ayşe Kulin and politician Binnaz Toprak, have made a call for peace.
15 September 2020
Constitutional Court: Preventing abused child from having an abortion violated her rights
A court had not allowed R.G., who was raped and impregnated when she was underage, to have an abortion.
10 September 2020
Four men who 'sexually assaulted' G.A. released from detention
G.A. had filed a complaint against five of her relatives, stating that she had been subjected to systematic sexual assault.
10 September 2020
Indictment against arrested suspect who attacked woman driver
Arrested for assaulting and insulting a woman driver in traffic in İstanbul, arrested suspect Emre E. as well as his wife and sister-in-law have been indicted. They are now facing 1 year, 1 month to 8 years in prison.
10 September 2020
Male violence: ‘Battered’ by actor Güven, Bulutsuz faces a lawsuit
After actor Ozan Güven announced that Deniz Bulutsuz battered him and filed a complaint against her, Bulutsuz now faces 4 months to 1 year in prison on charge of “actual bodily harm.”
9 September 2020
Male violence: Municipality holds krav maga workshop for women
İstanbul's Maltepe district municipality has trained women to defend themselves from violence.
9 September 2020
Journalist Özgür Boğatekin probed over Facebook post against racist attack
Boğatekin has been summoned to the security directorate over a Facebook post where he criticized a racist attack against Kurdish workers.
8 September 2020
Hikmet Adal
İstanbul to employ 88 women train drivers
The number of women drivers will increase from 11 to 99.
8 September 2020
Mother and sister of missing Gülistan Doku released from detention
Detained by riot police officers during their sit-in protest for missing university student Gülistan Doku in Dersim, mother Bedriye Doku and sister Aygül Doku have been released.
7 September 2020
Ruken Tuncel
‘The moment when they attacked us still haunts me’
Tuğba Demir, one of the Kurdish agricultural workers attacked by villagers and land owners in Sakarya, has spoken to bianet: “I used to want to be a teacher before, now I want to be a lawyer. No one should forget this incident.”
7 September 2020
Evrim Kepenek
‘I will sit in this square until my daughter is found’
Bedriye Doku, the mother of missing Gülistan Doku, has spoken to bianet: “I want to meet the President and want the chief suspect to be arrested. I want my daughter to be found.”
7 September 2020
Ruken Tuncel
Arrested over child abuse, Islamic cult leader faces up to 55 years in prison
The indictment accepted by the court demands 15 years to 40 years, 1 month, 15 days in prison for “repeated sexual abuse of children” and 3 years to 15 years in prison for “deprivation of liberty for sexual purposes towards the child."
7 September 2020
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‘LGBTI+s subjected to violence at home during pandemic’
Young LGBTI+ Association has announced the results of its survey conducted with the participation of 252 LGBTI+s from all 81 provinces of Turkey in May-June 2020.
3 September 2020
Men kill 31 women in August
Men inflicted violence on at least 122 women and killed at least four children in August. Abusing at least 20 children, including boys, men also harassed at least 21 women. Men forced at least 50 women to sex work in August 2020.
3 September 2020
Evrim Kepenek
‘Only 7 percent say Turkey should withdraw from İstanbul Convention’
According to the results of a recent survey conducted by KONDA research company, the last five years in Turkey have seen positive developments about people's approach to women’s place in society.
2 September 2020
Specialist Sergeant Musa O. discharged from Gendarmerie Command
Facing charges for “aggravated sexual assault” and driving 18-year-old İpek E. to suicide, Specialist Sergeant Musa A. was previously released from prison after serving only a week behind bars on the offense charged.
1 September 2020
‘The man pleads guilty of sexual abuse, how can you release him?’
The uncle of the child subjected to sexual assault says, “We asked the prosecutor, ‘While it is all obvious and the defendant pleaded guilty, how could you demand his release?’ He got angry and told us, ‘The court released him, go and talk to them’.”
28 August 2020
Publisher apologizes for sexual assault scene in children’s book: ‘It was by mistake’
Releasing a statement about the book which also has remarks legitimizing rape, the publishing house has said, “It is a publication which is outside our line of publication and was published by mistake and it was withdrawn from sale afterwards.”
27 August 2020
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‘İpek is not dead and she won’t until that man is penalized’
After the specialist sergeant facing charges for “sexually assaulting” İpek E. was released, her mother spoke to the press: “I can give up on my life, but not on this case, I will see it with my own eyes when that man is put on trial and penalized."
27 August 2020
Women are getting isolated from work life
According to a report by Building Markets, Syrian women in Turkey are isolated from work life due to lack of education, language barriers and gender roles. While only 15 percent of them participate in workforce, much fewer are business owners.
27 August 2020
Student faces investigation for protesting male violence after Pınar Gültekin’s death
Ege University has launched an investigation against its student Emine Akbaba, who joined the protests in İzmir after Pınar Gültekin, a university student in Muğla, was murdered by a man named Cemal Metin A.
27 August 2020
Singer says she was forced out of stage after announcing support for İstanbul Convention
"My microphone was taken out of my hands. I came to my home and cried my eyes out," Melek Mosso has said.
27 August 2020
Attorney: Court released military officer charged with rape because 'intercourse was consensual'
The suspect has been released despite a Forensic Medicine Institution report that stated İpek E. was subjected to sexual assault.
26 August 2020
‘Structural inequalities faced by women become more visible during pandemic’
Making a statement on the occasion of August 26 Women’s Equality Day, Escarus Sustainability Consultancy General Manager Dr. Kavak has underlined that women have been more affected by the novel coronavirus pandemic.
26 August 2020
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