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Zekeriya Yapıcıoğlu, who will be running for MP on the AKP list in İstanbul's 3rd electoral district, and his Free Cause Party are opposing Law No. 6284 on eliminating violence against women, while Zengin had recently stood up defending the law.

The New Welfare Party led by Fatih Erbakan had set amending this law as a condition for supporting the People's Alliance in the elections.

AKP Parliamentary Group Deputy Chair Özlem Zengin has argued that “the practice of strip search does not mean that it is a subject of human rights violation,” adding that “she does not say that there is no such search in Turkey at all.”

Taken into custody over his social media message about AKP Group Deputy Chair Özlem Zengin, lawyer Mert Yaşar has been arrested on charge of “insulting the President.”

Shortly after an investigation was launched against lawyer Mert Yaşar over his social media message about ruling AKP’s Parliamentary Group Deputy Chair Özlem Zengin, Yaşar has been taken into custody in İstanbul.

Ruling AKP Group Deputy Chair Zengin said, “Before the AKP came, women had no name in this country.” Women have slammed her remarks on social media: “Then, let us remember who closed the Ministry of State for Women in 2011.”