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Twenty years ago, the Kaos GL magazine was seized on the grounds of “obscenity” and “public morality.” Ten years ago, the ECtHR ruled that Turkey had violated Kaos GL’s freedom of expression. Today, those same concepts are at the center of an investigation in which the association's leaders have been arrested.

In the house rules pinned on the doors of Diyarbakır Şehitlik Teacher’s Lodgings, “single residents” have been warned that “they will face a legal action in case of an attitude or behavior against public morality or if they host disturbing guests.”

Feminist and the women organizations are getting together at Galata Bridge in Istanbul on July 5 to protest the recent court verdict that sentenced a woman for acting without shame