Women

A director has been kicked out of the prestigious İKSV Film Festival following allegations that he was the perpetrator of a violent act against a woman.

Serhat Yüksekbağ was to compete in the National Documentary Competition with his "A New World is Born."

The project "The Other Bulgarian Women" by the visual artist Mihail Vuchkov caused a scandal with its appearance.

The project is a reconstruction of paintings by Vladimir Dimitrov - Maystora (The Master), but the models are transsexual.

It was shortly after ringing in the New Year. She wanted to go out with her woman friend. However, the third and last drink that that she was served at that party led to an event she could not have imagined.

The next thing she remembers is finding herself in a hotel suite, naked and with her clothing strewn on the floor.

She immediately realised what had happened.

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.

The illumination of the Zalongo Monument coincides with the bicentennial celebrations of the Greek Revolution

An international campaign that aims to raise awareness on what to do as a witness in the event of violence against women and girls has been kicked off with the initiative of a United Nations body on Nov. 25.

The U.N. Women Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia has launched its new creative writing initiative, which aims to change the way societies think of women's and girls' roles in public by rewriting 28 fairy tales in an event in Istanbul.

Ljubljana – Five men charged with raping a 15-year-old girl last year appeared before the Ljubljana District Court on Friday for a pre-trial hearing, but the judge closed the proceedings and the trial that is to follow for the public to protect the privacy of the victim.

Tahiri-Sylejmani is one of the few Kosovo Albanian survivors of wartime sexual violence to have spoken out publicly about her ordeal. She followed the example of Vasfije Krasniqi-Goodman, who gave a televised interview in 2018 about how she was raped by Serbian policemen when she was 16 years old.

As the violence against women and femicides continues to be a deeply rooted and prevalent issue in Turkey, human rights defenders and activists are debating whether the hotlines called "calm lines" will help prevent the violence the way it partly did in Colombia.