Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The group of several thousand, mostly women, marched to the city centre's Taksim Square, blocked off with barriers amid a heavy ...

ISTANBUL – Women braved an official ban on an International Women’s Day march in Istanbul, Turkey, demonstrating for about two hours before police used tear gas to disperse remaining protesters and ...

Turkey formally withdrew İstanbul Convention today (July) in accordance with a decree issued in late March by President and Justice and Development Party (AKP) Chair Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Women took ...

Istanbul: A group of women staged a symbolic protest at the historic Fatih Mosque in Istanbul on the night of Laylat al-Qadr, drawing attention to the continued closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem ...

Welcome back to AL-MONITOR Istanbul. As we mark International Women’s Day next Sunday, it feels only right to dedicate this issue to women who have shaped Istanbul’s cultural and culinary map. We then ...

Women continue to hold rallies and demonstrations ahead of Turkey's withdrawal from the İstanbul Convention on July 1. A presidential decision was issued on March 20 for pulling out of the Council of ...

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