Women in Turkey

Only 4.4 million of 8.1 million employed women in Turkey were registered, lower than the population of Turkey's third largest city, according to the head of the Women Entrepreneurs Association of Turkey (KAG?DER). 

In an attempt to stop violence against women and sexual harassment cases, public transportation vehicles in Turkey?s southern province of Adana will now have panic buttons. Drivers of public transportation will also need to obtain a drug-free report. 

Defendants indirectly accused each other in the first court hearing on June 12 in the Tarsus district of the Mediterranean province of Mersin in the case into the brutal murder of Özgecan Aslan, the 20-year-old whose body was found in a river bed two days after she was killed by a minibus driver on Feb. 11.

As many as 1,000 attorneys are expected to represent Özgecan Aslan in the very first court hearing on June 12 in the case over her brutal murder. The 20-year-old's burned body was found in a river bed in the Mediterranean province of Mersin two days after she was killed by a minibus driver on Feb. 11.

Poverty and fear are the major reasons why most women subjected to domestic violence in eastern Turkey opt not to take action, according to a new report released by a women?s rights group. 

A Dutch traveler has said that she escaped an attempted sexual assault in western Turkey, breaking her arm.

Jiska Nina Van Gerner, 28, who started a long distance walk in the Netherlands last year and recently arrived in Turkey from Romania, got lost on the highway between Bursa and Ankara, Anadolu Agency reported on May 16.

The 18th Flying Broom International Women?s Films Festival will be held this year between May 8 and 18.

The festival program was launched at a meeting held at Ku?ulu Park in the Turkish capital. The festival, which will host a number of workshops, forums and panel discussions, has the theme ?The States of 18,? in its 18th year. 

The minibus in which 20-year-old university student Özgecan Aslan was brutally murdered will be used as a bookmobile, the new owner of the minibus has announced. The minibus will travel across Turkey and deliver books to children, preserving Özgecan?s legacy.

The minibus in which 20-year-old university student Özgecan Aslan was brutally murdered has been bought to serve as a school bus, Turkish media reported.

Aslan was killed on Feb. 11 in a minibus that she boarded outside a shopping mall in Mersin?s Tarsus district to head home after a day of classes. The driver of the minibus, Suphi Alt?ndöken, has confessed to the murder.

Newly-surfaced security camera footage shows Özgecan Aslan, who was brutally slain on Feb. 11, and her confessed killers in a southern Turkish city soon before her murder, CNN Türk television reported March 17.