While V.Y. has been released while proceedings regarding his step-uncle are underway.

We consider “secrecy” to be important in helping someone, but I would like to note that if we want to support the LGBTI+ movement, what we need to do is not to “help” but to defend their rights and to do it "openly."

A Twitter user and his step-uncle have been detained over sexist tweets against former HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş's spouse.

Authorities have started an inquiry after a woman student was told not to come to the library wearing shorts.

18th International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival on Wheels will start online tomorrow. All events and film screenings during the festival can be watched free of charge. Here is a brief look at the schedule of the festival and how to register online.

HDP Van MP Muazzez Orhan submitted 17 Parliamentary questions on the occasion of March 8 Women’s Day. The answers given to these questions three months later have shown the rate of women at the public administration in Turkey.

Ali Yıldırım from İstanbul Pride Week Committee: “We celebrate our existence. We are here, too. Even that ‘too’ is too much. We say we exist, we are here. Crying this out loud at a certain time of the year is very important to celebrate this existence...”

"We often encounter that enforcers give misleading and/or inadequate information to women and prevent them from accessing the rights they have to be protected from violence," says Mor Çatı.

Colleagues of Ayşegül Aktürk, who was killed by Muharrem E., laid carnations on the Emergency Service of Süreyyapaşa Training and Research Hospital, where they used to work together. “We will not lose one more woman,” they said.

Men are spreading their legs and walking in front of women in posters prepared by İstanbul Courthouse.

Main opposition CHP Vice Chair Gökçe Gökçen has denounced the increasing violence and discrimination against LGBTI+s in a written statement. Gökçen has made a call for an effective struggle against hate crimes.

While prosecutor's issue protective orders in most applications by women, they usually decide not to prosecute suspects, CHP MP Akkuş-İlgezdi has noted, citing Jutice Ministry data.

Attorney İlyas Doğan has appealed to the Constitutional Court regarding the decision of non-prosecution given for domestic worker Nadira Kadirova's suspicious death at the house of ruling AKP MP Şirin Ünal in September 2019.

Amid increasing discrimination and violence against LGBTI+s in Turkey, three such incidents have reportedly occurred in İstanbul over the past week.

The company has said it was "surprised and upset" because of a boycott campaign against it over a social media post on Pride Month.

The Kaos GL Association has released the Homophobia and Transphobia Based Hate Crimes Report 2019.

Let alone the failure to make news on male violence amid corona, the biggest hardship in monitoring media for male violence news perhaps lies in the media. Both the news with an ideological interpretation of statistics and routine news still normalize violence.

Threatened with death on social media, feminist - writer Gülfer Akkaya has filed a criminal complaint. Akkaya has spoken to bianet about the threats.

A male student studying child development at the University of Health Sciences harassed women on social media and threatened them with death. The university has announced that he has been suspended for a semester as a disciplinary punishment.

Çağla Tuğaltay, a high school student, was found dead with her throat slit in 2000.