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.

Hatice Ödemiş from the Association for Solidarity with Migrant Women and Özgül Kaptan from the Women’s Solidarity Foundation (KADAV) have spoken to bianet about how migratory movements affect women.

A union confederation has released the findings of a survey among women employees at state agencies.

Contrary to the traditional form of violence, which was mostly exercised by family members, men in Turkey now feel free "policing" any woman, according to the professor.

Albayrak last month became the first trans woman to become a municipal worker for the party.

The website that focuses exclusively on women's issues has been banned by a regulatory authority on telecommunications.

Having gone on a hunger strike because she was insistently given non-vegan food in prison, vegan trans inmate İda Koçak has ended her hunger strike on the ninth day as her demands have been met.

Law professor Ceren Damar Şenel was stabbed and shot dead by a student in her room at the university.

Trans activist Diren Coşkun has announced that vegan trans inmate İda Koçak has been on a hunger strike as she is insistently given non-vegan food in prison.

Taken into custody after a former law apprentice announced that she was sexually assaulted by him, lawyer M.K. has been arrested on charge of “aggravated sexual assault.”