Femicide

Some 22 Turkish women have plunged to their deaths over the past year and a half from a balcony or window, raising women's rights groups' eyebrows on whether these were femicide framed as "suicides."

Turkish police have identified an Iranian woman in the northwestern province of Sakarya who has been beheaded from the serial number of the silicon breast implants she had.

Authorities are not disclosing the identity of the murdered woman and her companion as the investigation is ongoing.

By Periklis Dimitroulopoulos

If the public is always "voracious" then temptation will always be unbounded.

In an unbridled fashion and with the pretext of this insatiable voracity a family tragedy has been transformed into a show seen through a keyhole.

A woman shouts a slogan during a protest against Turkey's withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, in Istanbul, Turkey, 2 April 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/SEDAT SUNA

'Patriarchy murders': Women protest against femicide in Syntagma Square

In the aftermath of the confessed, cold-blooded murder of 20-year-old Caroline Crouch by her husband Babis Anagnostopoulos, a pilot, women's organisations held a demonstration today in Syntagma Square calling for the establishment of the term femicide as a distinct crime.

An Istanbul court ruled jail terms between 5 to 16 years for family members that tortured a woman who wanted to divorce her husband on June 7.

According to the lawsuit, a woman called police at midnight on May 11, saying "My daughter is kidnapped."

The police found out that Ceylan Yıldırım, a mother of two children, was kidnapped by her husband, Ersin Yıldırım, in a minivan.

A woman has been stabbed to death by her husband in the western province of Denizli.

Meral Sivrikaya, a 50-year-old mother of two, has left home two weeks ago due to problems she had with Erkan Sivrikaya, with whom she was at the stage of divorce, and started to stay at her daughter's house in Denizli's Pamukkale district.

Turkey sparked both domestic and international fury on Saturday after it withdrew from the world's first binding treaty to prevent and combat violence against women.

On Saturday, tens of thousands of Turkish women across the country protested President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's midnight decision to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention, a European treaty to stop domestic violence.

Dozens of Kosovo citizens on Thursday evening paid tribute in the capital Pristina to Sebahate Morina, a woman killed several days ago by her ex-husband in the capital's Kalabria neighbourhood.

Protesters held placards with the name of the victim and the inscription: "Not one more".

Women across Mexico took to the streets on March 8 to protest the crisis of violence they face on a daily basis, fueled by what they say is an out of touch government, and President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's support for a politician accused of rape.