Femicide
Women of Southeast, Central Europe Protest Rise in Male Violence
Women protesters wearing face masks as they hold placards reading: 'We don't want to die' at a rally for the 'prevention of violence against women' in Istanbul, Turkey, November 22. Photo: EPA-EFE/SEDAT SUNA
Charges against police who used force on feminist dance ‘Las Tesis’ group dropped
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has dropped charges against police officers who used physical force on a group of women who performed the "Las Tesis" dance last year to draw attention to growing femicide in Turkey.
The prosecutors said "no crime or element of crime" had been found in their decision.
Woman dies after being set on fire by man in latest femicide
Yet another woman has been murdered in Turkey when she succumbed to severe injuries after being set on fire by a man who she reportedly lived with in the Black Sea province of Ordu's Fatsa district.
Turkey’s women take to Twitter to mock sexist language
Many of Turkey's women Twitter users have given their male counterparts a taste of the sexist remarks and misogynistic often-heard proverbs which they hear almost on a daily basis.
Nazi salutes, Molotov cocktails rock massive Mexico women's march
A group of women outside Mexico City's main cathedral clashed on March 8 with men protesting abortion who made Nazi salutes, among scuffles that left dozens injured during a protest of tens of thousands of people on International Women's Day.
Man receives aggravated life sentence for murder of academic
An Ankara court on Feb. 21 reached a verdict in the high-profile case of the murder of 27-year-old research assistant Ceren Damar Şenel.
The 33rd Heavy Penal Court of Ankara convicted suspect Hasan İsmail Hikmet to an aggravated life sentence on charges of "deliberate killing." He was separately given two years in prison for "violating firearm laws" and "threatening with a gun."
Angry protests in Mexico after woman’s gruesome killing
Angry demonstrations broke out in Mexico City on Feb. 14 as hundreds of women protested the gruesome slaying and mutilation of a young woman, a case that has come to personify outrage over the rising incidence of gender-related killings, or femicides.
Man receives aggravated life sentence in femicide case
The murderer of 20-year-old ballerina Ceren Özdemir was sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment in the second hearing of Turkey's high-profile femicide case.
A psychiatric examination report of the suspect Özgür Arduç, 36, said that his abilities of mental abstraction and evaluating the reality were normal.
Over 470 women killed in Turkey in 2019: Platform
At least 474 women were murdered in Turkey in 2019, according to an annual report by Kadın Cinayetlerini Durduracağız Platformu (We Will Stop Femicides Platform), a women's rights organization that monitors violence against women.
The number of women killed increased in 2019 compared to the previous year, the platform, which keeps a tally of murders of women, said in the report.
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Democracy Digest: Women Rappers Get Political
It was the voice of the marginalised, pure and simple: "Behind the gray blocks / There we are - the majority / They're higher closer to the street / So the hunger is not visible."
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