Armenian Patriarch of Turkey Mesrob II Mutafyan has lost his life in Surp Pırgiç Armenian Hospital in İstanbul. Speaking to bianet, HDP Diyarbakır MP Garo Paylan has said, “He was a spiritual leader, whom we will always remember.”

The Press Council of Turkey and UNESCO have held a joint conference on “Importance of Self-Regulation in Media” and “Self-Regulation in Digital Age.”

Being dismissed from their jobs for unionizing, the Flormar cosmetics company workers have ended their 297-day resistance on March International Women's' Day."

CHP Vice Chair Gamze Akkuş İlgezdi has announced that 51,748 girls were subjected to sexual violence between 2014 and 2017, citing the figures of the Ministry of Interior.

Human Rights Association has released a statement of solidarity for Prof. Dr. Füsun Üstel, the first Academic for Peace whose prison sentence has been upheld: “We call the national and international academic community to stand against this injustice.”

Men have killed 23 women and attempted to kill at least two women in the second month of 2019. They also raped two women and harassed at least six women.

Releasing its 2018 report, the Legal Aid Bureau Against Sexual Harassment and Rape in Detention demanded the İstanbul Convention be implemented.

At the İstanbul 25th Heavy Penal Court, the prosecutor has announced his opinion as to the accusations and demanded that two academics be penalized on charge of “knowingly and willingly aiding a terrorist organization a non-member.”

Being tried for insulting Engin Karataş, a teacher who was discharged as per a Statutory Decree and has been protesting the discharges since then, the police officer has been acquitted based on the testimony of another police officer.

Transgender inmate Buse Aydın, who is on a death fast because her gender reassignment operation is blocked, has sent a letter, saying, "A trans murder will be committed by favour of the Ministry of Justice and the judicial system."

Announcing its judgement on Aktaş, a convict in İmralı Prison, who was banned from making phone calls for a year, the Constitutional Court has ruled that his “freedom of communication” has been violated. Aktaş will be paid 4 thousand TRY in damages.

According to the "Public Perceptions of Gender Roles and the Status of Women" survey by Kadir Has University, 60 percent views "violence" as the biggest problem that women face in the society. The report also notes that the equality of women and men is on the rise.