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UK nominates movie on gender-based violence in Turkey for Oscars

A British-made documentary about pervasive gender-based violence in Turkey has been selected as the United Kingdom's Oscar nominee for the 94th Academy Awards, to be held in March in Los Angeles.

Directed by Chloe Fairweather, "Dying to Divorce" has been selected to represent Britain at the Oscars as the official entry in the Best International Feature Film category.

Body of woman recovered from water-well in Turkey's Denizli

The body of a woman has been found naked and battered with stones inside a water-well in Turkey's southwestern province of Denizli. Police have detained two brothers suspected of committing the murder. 

The woman, identified as Kübra Acar, 52, went missing after leaving her home early on Feb. 10 to graze her herd in the village of Koparan in Denizli. 

Turkey, the country where woman come after the oxen

This is from Naz?m Hikmet's poem, "Our Women": "And women, our women, with their magnificent sacred hands? our mothers, lovers, wives, who die without ever having lived and whose place at our table comes after our ox?" 

Like all his work, this is an incredible poem, full of correct observations, describing the place of women in the mind of Turkish men. It was written in 1922.