On the occasion of LGBTI+ Health Awareness Week, the BİZ Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Studies Association and Turkish Medical Students’ International Committee have asked LGBTI+s what they expect from health workers.

Criticizing the bill foreseeing reduced prison terms for sexual offenses, bar associations say, “We think that even having a debate on an amendment like this while our country is waging an all-out struggle against the virus outbreak will divide the society.”

The government has been working on a regulation to reduce the prison population due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The parliament will vote on a bill on sentence reductions in a bid to reduce prison populations due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Kadir Has University has released its annual "Perceptions of Gender Roles and the Status of Women in Turkey" survey.

In the wake of news reports that a male-specific antigene was found in the uterus of Nadira Kadirova, a domestic worker found dead in an AKP MP’s house, “We Want to Live” Initiative has released a statement about her suspicious death.

Asst. Prof. Baykan from Yeditepe University has been closely monitoring the events with no women invited for the last three years and asking the organizers the reason for the absence of women. Baykan has shared his observations with bianet.

The Women Lawyers' Solidarity was founded after a trainee solicitor revealed the sexual harassment by a lawyer, which led to other women lawyers joining her and eventually the arrest of harasser.

Women gathered on city squares to mark International Women's Day, chanting slogans against male violence, war and economic crisis.

Taken into custody while attempting to reach İstiklal Avenue in Taksim for the 18th Feminist Night March on International Women’s Day, 32 women and two men have been released in morning hours today.

In the 415th sit-in protest held for inmates of Type-F prisons, the Prisons Commission of the Human Rights Association (İHD) İstanbul Branch raised concerns over ill women inmates in Turkey ahead of March 8 International Women’s Day.

According to the figures shared by the Health and Safety Labor Watch on the occasion of International Women’s Day, at least 817 women workers lost their lives in occupational homicides in Turkey from 2013 to 2019.

Gathering in the side streets to reach İstiklal Avenue for the Feminist Night March in İstanbul, women have been stopped by police barricades. While the police have attacked the women with tear gas, at least 32 people have been detained.

A recent report by KONDA Research and Consultancy shows that 72 percent of society, or three out of every four people, take divorce normally when the partners cannot get along with each other.

The fifth annual Report on Women’s Labor in Turkey released by the DİSK/Genel-İş Union has shown that only 34.2 percent of women participate in work life and the number of unemployed women increased by 52 percent from 2014 to 2019.

Nadira Kadirova was found dead in the house of MP Şirin Ünal in September 2019.

Sezen Özkan from the Women’s Defense Network says that the most urgent needs of refugee women waiting at Turkey-Greece border are water, baby food and sanitary pads. Özkan calls on everyone to solidarize with refugee women.

Aslı Yasemin was detained and exposed to violence by the police during the 2017 Pride Parade in İstanbul.

Men inflicted violence on at least 51 women, raped four women and forced 134 women to sex work in February. Men also abused 23 children and harassed at least five women.

A lawsuit has been filed against Ayşen Kavas, Fidan Ataselim, Nisa Kör, Seda Elhan Barbaros, Sevda Yeniköylü and Yaprak Okatalı, who protested male violence with Las Tesis dance in Kadıköy, İstanbul. They face six months to three years in prison.