Women in Turkey

Two women shot dead on highway in southern Turkey

Two women have been shot dead on a highway in the southern province of Adana, as Turkey continues to debate the apparently increasing number of brutal murders committed by men.

A truck driver noticed the bodies of the two women in a ditch on the Tarsus-Adana-Gaziantep highway on March 16, Do?an News Agency reported.

Minibus mafia in Turkey

Last week was the anniversary of the gang rape incident and horrible murder of the Indian medical student at a New Delhi bus. She was raped and mutilated with an iron rod, her internal organs fatally injured. She died 13 days later. It was only a few weeks ago when Özgecan Aslan, a 20-year-old student, was attacked by a minibus driver, beaten by tire iron.

Turkey's first women's daily aims to make women's voices heard

Turkey?s first ever women?s daily newspaper continues to be published in the southern province of Mersin, where 20-year-old university student Özgecan Aslan was brutally murdered last month.

?Mersin Kad?n Gazetesi,? (Mersin Women?s Daily) which only employees women staff, has been appearing for five years and aims to end violence against women and amplify their voices.

VIDEO: Loopholes in Turkey's domestic violence laws new focus for advocates

Men learn of loopholes in Turkey's domestic violence laws and plan their attacks with the intention of landing reduced sentences, journalist Christina Asquith writes for the Hürriyet Daily News. After shooting his wife six times in the arms and legs, the husband of Arzu Bozta? turned himself into police. He claimed he lost his temper in the moment and his wife provoked his rage.

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