Around 1,000 women gather in Istanbul to protest against femicides
Around 1,000 women gathered near Istanbul's Taksim Square on Monday (March 8) protesting what they see as a lack of action by authorities to prevent and punish violence against women.
The protesters, mostly women, carried purple flags with female signs and wore purple masks reading "we will win our freedom".
The women gathered on a main street after police closed off the entrances to Taksim Square on International Women's Day.
Police stood with their arms linked at the end of the street, blocking entry to the square while behind them stood fences, police in riot gear and water cannon trucks.
The femicide rate roughly doubled between 2011 and 2019, according to a group that monitors murders of women, which also said that so far in 2021, 51 women have been murdered and another 26 have died under suspicious circumstances.
Turkey does not keep official statistics on femicide.
The protester around Taksim chanted "femicide is political" and "the life is ours, the choice is ours, the streets are ours, you can keep your family."
(Source: Reuters)
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