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Turkish police fire tear gas to break up Women’s Day march in İstanbul

Riot police in İstanbul fired tear gas and plastic bullets to disperse thousands of demonstrators who tried to march along the city's main pedestrian...

Female candidates in Turkey’s local elections below 7 percent

As Turkey’s upcoming local elections draw closer, the proportion of female candidates nominated by major parties for municipal posts are registered at below 7...

Local mayor in Turkey slaps female employee on women’s day

Haluk Alıcık, the mayor of Turkey’s western district of Nazilli, is seen in a video slapping a female employee, regional media outlet Aydın Life...

Turkey top jailer of female journalists, CPJ announces on International Women’s Day

Turkey is the world’s top jailer of female journalists with 14 in prison, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) announced on March 8, International...

Turkish court rejects academic’s objection to travel ban

An Ankara court has rejected an objection to a travel ban imposed on an academic who was fired from his university job over the...

CHP candidate claims campaign office visitors investigated over support for terrorism

A candidate for mayor of Turkey’s southeastern district of Uludere from the Republican People’s Party (CHP) claimed that people who visited his campaign office...

‘What’s done is done’: AKP candidate on over-urbanization of İstanbul

Binali Yıldırım, a candidate for mayor of İstanbul, has responded to criticism that İstanbul has been excessively urbanized, saying, “What’s done is done,” the...

2 more HDP deputies go on hunger strike, bringing total to 4

Two more deputies from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) announced on Friday that they had started a hunger strike demanding an end to the...

Journalist Zafer Özcan arrested over Gülen links

Former Bugün columnist and Zaman daily reporter Zafer Özcan was arrested on Thursday in the western province of Manisa over links to the faith-based...

Turkey’s Armenian patriarch dies at the age of 63

Mesrob II Mutafyan, the Armenian patriarch in İstanbul and the spiritual leader of Turkey’s Armenians, has died at the age of 63. The demise of...

15,034 women murdered in Turkey during 17-year-long AKP rule

A total of 15,034 women have been murdered in Turkey since the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in 2002, according to...

Sexual abuse of girls 11 or younger increased 94 pct from 2014 to 2017: report

The number of 11-year-old or younger girls who were subjected to sexual abuse or sexual violence increased by 94 percent from 2014 to 2017,...

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