Taken into custody by torture in İzmir while protesting to defend İstanbul Convention, LGBTI+ activist İsmail Temel fainted when he was detained. Temel has made a call for solidarity: “I do not want them to get away with the torture they inflicted on me.”

I have been thinking about Halide since the day when İstanbul Convention was opened to debate in Turkey. Halide was killed and the male perpetrator got his prison sentence reduced. Because İstanbul Convention was not fully implemented.

The convention protects women and children from violence but those who oppose don't know about it enough, according to ASAP Chair Ayla Kerimoğlu.

Columnist Abdurrahman Dilipak had called those who support the convention on violence against women "prostitutes."

While saying that Turkey doesn't need to abandon the convention, Şentop has remarked that it has some "Eurocentric" elements that are "imposed as a universal paradigm."

An investigation has been opened against a local news outlet for "provoking people to hatred and hostility" over three reports on the incident.

A study supported by the UNDP shows that men's contribution to household work has increased during the coronavirus pandemic.

The police did not allow women to march and detained 16 during yesterday's demonstrations.

Demonstrations under the slogan "We are not giving up our rights, implement the İstanbul Convention" have been held in 16 cities simultaneously.

"Turkey's withdrawal from the Convention would have disastrous consequences for millions of women and girls in the country," Amnesty's Anna Błuś has said.

Women in Turkey have had more negative emotional impacts and more women have started to work from home during the pandemic, according to a UN Women study.

An expert review of the footage that allegedly shows Gülistan Doku committing suicide has been released.

Men inflicted violence on at least 80 women and killed at least three children in July. They abused at least 27 children, including boys, harassed at least 15 women and forced at least 113 women to sex work.

Women's organizations will gather in 11 provinces to voice support for the convention.

As pro-government circles debate whether Turkey should withdraw from the convention, the KADEM has announced support for the İstanbul Convention while saying that it will continue to "fight homosexuality."

The Ankara 7th Administrative Court has concluded that the ban on the 9th LGBTI+ Pride Parade to be held in Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara in 2019 was unlawful. The court has overturned the ban.

The 20-year-old woman has said on social media that she was raped by a man after helping him.

The convention came into force on August 1, 2014.

Women’s Platform for Equality has shared details about the İstanbul Convention on social media so that the disinformation about the provisions of the convention can be eliminated.

Ankara Medical Chamber has dismissed Forensic Medicine Specialist Dr. Aydın from the profession for 6 months. In Şule Çet case, he said, “If a woman agrees to have a drink with a man in solitude, it means she consents to sexual intercourse.”