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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A court had not allowed R.G., who was raped and impregnated when she was underage, to have an abortion.

G.A. had filed a complaint against five of her relatives, stating that she had been subjected to systematic sexual assault.

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.

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.”

İstanbul's Maltepe district municipality has trained women to defend themselves from violence.

Boğatekin has been summoned to the security directorate over a Facebook post where he criticized a racist attack against Kurdish workers.

The number of women drivers will increase from 11 to 99.

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.

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.”

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.”

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."

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.

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.

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.