Recent police raids on Ishtar Women Center in Mersin province affected the number of applications in women shelters after 4 organization members have been arrested for allegations including organizing an alternative kids parade and holding lectures on social gender.

In March 2013, male perpetrators left 14 women, 2 men and 1 infant dead, 16 women and teenager girls raped, 25 women battered and 28 women harassed. 2 women have been murdered despite court restraining orders.

According to data compiled by bianet, male violence left 12 women dead, and 14 raped in December 2012. The most male violence cases were reported in Istanbul.

"Activism is not only about demonstrating on the street. It is important to show that 'others' are also capable of doing meaningful things. Therefore, I am marching with my flag in the hand," Michelle Demishevich, Turkey's first trans television reporter, told bianet.

A trans woman with a pink identity card was not allowed to enter a spa facility in Balıkesir province. Kırancı filed a complaint to the prosecutor.

Alper Çağlar’s latest movie Dağ (Mountain) received this year's Golden Okra Award - an alternative prize established in 2009 against the overwhelming predominance of the patriarchal perspective and male gaze and the continuing constriction of space for women in Turkish cinema.

Feminist artists Arzu Yayıntaş and Neriman Polat launched an exhibition depicting women victims' names of male violence at a traditional coffee house - a place unofficially reserved for men - in Istanbul's Tophane district.

In the court case of Esin Güneş, who was thrown down a precipice and killed, her husband has received a life sentence. The lawyer will also file a criminal complaint against public officials who protected the defendants.

LGBT organisations have protested with a press statement after an attack in Avcılar, Istanbul, has left trans woman Seda dead.

KA.DER, a women association, announced its annual report regarding the woman representation in Turkey's work and political life, a survey that showed no improvement since last year.

In February 2013, male violence left 11 women and 1 man children killed, 11 women raped, 20 women and 1 infant battered. While 1 woman has been murdered despite court expulsion orders for their perpetrators, 2 others were left severely wounded.

LGBT rights activists has launched a petition to condemn the hate speech directed at Rüzgar Erkoçlar, a trans man whose recent gender change was exposed to the media without his consent.