The elder brother of Nadira Kadirova, who suspiciously died in the house of a ruling AKP MP, has spoken to bianet: “She was killed with a bullet fired from Şirin Ünal’s gun. Using his position and money, he bought off both the hospital and prosecutor’s office."

Ali Edizer, the Deputy Chief Physician of Gülhane Training and Research Hospital, has spoken on his social media accounts and alleged that "a man can get a second spouse as Islam allows it." His remarks have caused an outrage.

The frequency of breast cancer per 100 thousand people is 46.3 for the world, 45.6 for Turkey, 92.6 for Northern European countries, 38.3 for the US, and 39.2 for East Asia, according to the Ministry of Health.

In a statement, the Women’s Platform for Equality (EŞİK) has slammed Süleyman Arslan, the Chair of Human Rights and Equality Institution of Turkey (TİHEK), over his remarks that “early marriage and child abuse should be differentiated.”

The court has announced its ruling regarding the death of 4-year-old Leyla in Turkey's eastern province of Ağrı. Yusuf Aydemir, the paternal uncle of the girl, has been sentenced to aggravated live imprisonment.

Speaking at the UN meeting on the 25th anniversary of the 4th World Conference on Women, President of the 75th Session of the UN General Assembly Volkan Bozkır has called on all related parties to not waste any more time to reach full gender equality.

As part of the investigation launched into the killing of Pınar Gültekin in Muğla, a man named Mertcan A. has been arrested on charge of “spoliation of evidence”. Mertcan A. is also the brother of Cemal Metin A., who has been arrested for killing Gültekin.

Speaking to bianet, lawyer Aslı Pasinli notes that the aggravated life sentence given to Mesut I. for killing Müzeyyen Boylu will be a deterrent factor for other possible perpetrators of violence as his sentence has not been reduced.

Kadirova, 23, died in the home of AKP deputy Şirin Ünal. The investigation into the incident has been dismissed.

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.

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.

A man had applied to the top court, requesting the removal of the indefinite alimony payment to his ex-spouse.

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.