“2020 was an indication that the 18-year policies of the AKP government were misogynist and how not a single step had been taken for women’s good for 18 years,” says HDP Women Assembly’s Spokesperson Ayşe Acar Başaran.

Noting that four women were killed by men in Turkey in a single day, the Dikili Women’s Platform in İzmir has asked why the İstanbul Convention is not implemented in the country to protect women from male violence.

İstanbul Aydın University held a ceremony for academic Aylin Sözer, who was killed in a feminicide in İstanbul yesterday. “We have lost the apple of our eye,” said University President Prof. Yadigar İzmirli.

While Emine Erdoğan, the spouse of President Erdoğan, has said, “It opens a deep wound in our hearts”, Minister of Justice Gül and Minister of Family and Labor Zümrüt Selçuk have stressed that “the judiciary will do what is necessary.”

Mehmet T. has been taken into custody after reportedly shooting his spouse dead.

A man named Kemal D. has been detained for “killing” academic Aylin Sözer in İstanbul. The feminicide has caused a public outrage on social media.

A group of women from Turkey’s publishing industry have released a joint statement titled “May you lose sleep” amid a recent movement where women reveal the perpetrators of sexual violence, saying, “May you lose sleep, thinking, ‘When will I be exposed?’”

Thirty women journalists from around Turkey have been interviewed about the problems they experience in professional life.

Arrested for sexually abusing his 3.5-year-old grandchild in İstanbul, Cafer Y. has been released due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

Sentenced to prison for sexually harassing assistant physician D.E., physician Aydın started working at the same hospital again. D.E. and 40 other personnel submitted petitions, indicating that they did not want to work with him.

Only 30 of 519 parliamentary questions, 13 of 103 motions for a parliamentary inquiry and three of 62 law proposals were about women in the past month.

The government has to ensure that trans people can access healthcare, seven LGBTI+ groups said in a joint statement.

The 9th Heavy Penal Court in Diyarbakır has ruled that Democratic Society Congress (DTK) Co-Chair Güven shall be sentenced to 22 years, 3 months in prison. The court has also issued an arrest warrant against the politician.

With its digital project titled “Crossing paths: 80 years of changing lives”, British Council has been sharing the inspiring stories of 80 women to mark its 80th anniversary in Turkey.

"Even if it doesn't happen to me, it happens to my friends. We are surprised by how we survive in this system. We are alive by luck. We have no security," says sex worker Cansu.

HDP MP Oya Ersoy has underlined that women cannot tolerate even a single word about Turkey’s possible withdrawal from the İstanbul Convention. “It cannot remain on paper, we will ensure that the convention is enforced,” she has noted.

Established to examine complaints about negligence and abuse of children and violence against women, Turkey's Hotline for Women, Children and Social Service received 336,564 reports in 2018, according to the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Services.

Investigations should be opened based on women's revelations of sexual harassment, according to the bar association.

"We will not stay silent any longer; the more we speak, the more you’ll be ashamed of yourselves. The ones who need to be held accountable are the perpetrators, not the survivors," says the initiative in solidarity with the women who expose men's harassment.

Kaos GL Association and Kadir Has University Gender and Women’s Studies Research Center have released their annual report on the Situation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex and Plus Employees in Public and Private Sector in Turkey.