ISTANBUL (AP) — Police detained dozens of people in Istanbul who tried to join a rally Monday calling for greater protection for women in Turkey, where more than 400 women have been murdered this year ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Turkish police arresting an Israeli woman in Taksim Square, Istanbul, January 2026. (photo credit: SCREENSHOT/X/VIA SECTION 27A OF ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Thousands of women took to the streets of Turkish cities Saturday to mark International Women’s Day, protesting inequality and violence against women. On the Asian side of Istanbul, a ...

Investigators identified the victim, whose legs were also cut off, as a 37-year-old Uzbek national. Two suspects have been detained The decapitated body of a woman, whose legs were also cut off, was ...

In parallel with worsening media freedoms and women rights in Turkey, online abuse of female reporters is rising, fuelled by a climate of impunity. Nese Idil says the level of abuse she sometimes ...

Turkey withdrew from the Istanbul Convention — a treaty signed by member states of the Council of Europe to prevent violence and domestic abuse against women — over what the ruling government of the ...

Uzuner and Halil were not the only women whose names made the headlines in Turkey last week. Another woman was sexually harassed in Istanbul by two men who were released initially but re-arrested ...

Turkish authorities have detained nearly 1,500 people amid the country’s largest antigovernment protests in more than a decade, the country’s interior minister said on March 25. The protests erupted ...