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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and family members of coup victims walk to place flowers by the ‘Martyrs Monument’ outside his presidential palace, in Ankara, today
FEMICIDE in Turkey has reached a level resembling “a war record,” according to women’s groups, which accused the government of “political murder” over its plans to withdraw from an international convention on gender-based violence.
Activists from the Liberation of Women initiative were among those who formed a “purple chain” in front of the Sureyya opera house in Istanbul’s Kadikoy district on Tuesday, despite a heavy police presence.
They held placards bearing the images of women killed or disappeared over the past year, including Uzbek woman Nadira Kadirova, who allegedly committed suicide in the flat of ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) MP Sirin Unal, and Kurdish student Gulistan Doku, who went missing on January 5 following an argument with her ex-boyfriend in Dersim.
CLAUDIA WEBBE looks at how Britain’s Nato ally has upped the stakes in its effort to silence domestic dissenting voices
