Ayşegül Terzi

Sabri Çelebi went on the streets with a machete during the Gezi Park Protests in Istanbul in 2013 and attacked protesters. He injured a woman by kicking her and a policeman from his hand. He was caught but released immediately afterwards. He went abroad. The ruling for his release was rejected.

An Istanbul court sentenced Abdullah Çakıroğlu on Sept. 7 to three years and 10 months in prison for kicking a young woman for wearing "inappropriate clothes" on a public bus.

The Istanbul 40th Court of First Instance said in its ruling the sentence was given on charges of "prohibiting the freedom of belief and opinion," "deliberate injury" and "insult."

Hundreds of women marched in Istanbul on July 29 to protest against violence and animosity they face from men demanding they dress more conservatively.

A man who kicked a woman for wearing shorts on a public bus in Istanbul on Sept. 12, 2016, will go on trial on March 8, International Women's Day.

The Istanbul court had postponed the trial of Abdullah Çakıroğlu, who was caught on camera kicking the victim Ayşegül Terzi for wearing "inappropriate clothes," as neither Terzi nor Çakıroğlu were present at the third hearing of the case. 

The Turkish Family and Social Policies Ministry has initiated work with the Justice Ministry to draft a new legal regulation levying heavier punishments for violence against women amid a legal saga over the attack of a man who attacked a woman wearing shorts, according to Minister Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya.

Istanbul prosecutors have issued an objection to a court's decision that released a man who was under trial for assaulting a woman wearing shorts on a public bus in Istanbul. 

A man arrested for kicking a young woman in the face on a public bus for wearing shorts was released pending trial during the first hearing at an Istanbul court on Oct. 26. 

Both the defendant Abdullah Çakıroğlu and the plaintiff Ayşegül Terzi were present at the first hearing of the trial, ahead of which police took intense security measures. 

Mehmet Kuzgun, the muezzin of İzmir's Narlıdere Yalvaç Mosque was assaulted after he recited the "sala" (a special call to prayer) on the night of July 15. The release of his attackers pending trial drew an angry reaction from members of the public and a renewed detention order was issued. 

Thousands of female bikers from 28 cities in Turkey and Turkish Cyprus got behind the handle bars on Sept. 24 for the annual Chic Women's Bicycle Tour in a peaceful demonstration that combined feminism and green transport.

Turks donned shorts and gathered in central Istanbul to condemn the assault of a young nurse who was attacked on a public bus this month for wearing shorts.