Federation of Turkish Women Associations

In the last 13 days 12 women have been killed in Türkiye as women's rights defenders cry out against the lack of preventative policies.

Some of these women, who were killed by their husbands or ex-husbands despite the restraining orders, were taken away from life with their child or mother.

Some 22 Turkish women have plunged to their deaths over the past year and a half from a balcony or window, raising women's rights groups' eyebrows on whether these were femicide framed as "suicides."

Domestic violence against women has been on the rise amid the coronavirus outbreak, but women hesitate to report abuses they suffer to authorities because they live in a confined space with their partners and fear that their partners may notice they're being reported.