Women in Turkey

The wife of the murderer of Pınar Gültekin, a 27-year-old university student who was killed in the Aegean province of Muğla last year, has been included in the high profile femicide case.

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."

Tens of thousands of Turkish women rallied across the country on Thursday evening to protest the government's decision to pull out of the so-called Istanbul Convention on domestic violence and women's rights.

The 24th Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival awarded the recipients of its honorary awards on June 4.

Actress Nur Sürer and actress-singer Zuhal Olcay received the honorary awards on June 4 at a ceremony held at the CerModern Arts Center in Ankara.

Films from 33 countries will be screened online for film enthusiasts until June 11 as part of the event.

Ayşe Begüm Onbaşı, a Turkish gymnast who won gold medal in individual women's final at the Aerobic Gymnastics World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, dedicated her historic win to Turkish women.

The 24th Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival will bring national and international women's films together with moviegoers until June 11.

A meeting was held for the festival on May 27 to launch the festival.

Women hold placards and shot slogans during a protest against Turkey's announced withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, in Istanbul in March 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/ERDEM SAHIN

Turkey sparked both domestic and international fury on Saturday after it withdrew from the world's first binding treaty to prevent and combat violence against women.

On Saturday, tens of thousands of Turkish women across the country protested President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's midnight decision to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention, a European treaty to stop domestic violence.

A female protester holding a feminist flag  on International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women in Istanbul, March 6 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/SEDAT SUNA

Turkish women have been holding protests and marches since Friday, and nine women were detained by police for carrying LGBTI flags at a protest in Istanbul's Kadikoy Pier Square.

Fewer people in Turkey got married and divorced in 2020 compared to the previous year, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) said on Feb. 25.

"The number of people who got married was 542,314 in 2019. It was 487,270 in 2020, a 10.1 percent decrease [since the year before]," TÜİK said in its latest statistics on marriage and divorce rates.