Turkey: Women rights activists protest in Istanbul after killing of 21yo woman

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Women rights activists staged a protest at Kadikoy Square in Istanbul following the killing of a university student, Monday.

“I don’t believe that women really live equally in this country. Because we still live under the pressure of men. There is such pressure,” said Elif, a protester.

Forty-eight-year-old real estate agent Mustafa Murat Ayhan has recently confessed to the murder of Azra Gulendam Haytaoglu, a 21-year-old student who disappeared last week and was later found buried in a forest.

The murder is the latest in a series of increasing violent acts against women with protests intensifying in the wake of Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, an international treaty to avert and prosecute violence against women and domestic abuse, which was signed in 2011.

SOT, Fidan Ataselim, General secretary for We Will Stop the Femicide (Turkish): “While they try to take away the Istanbul Convention from us, which will keep women alive, do you think we will remain silent when women are killed and lost one by one? Did you think we would stay silent, friends? Are we going to stay silent, friends?”

Protesters (Turkish): “No!”

SOT, Elif, Protestor (Turkish): “I don’t believe that women really live equally in this country. Because we still live under the pressure of men. There is such pressure.”

SOT, Zeynep, Protestor (Turkish): “Why can’t I walk freely on the streets of my country? Why am I scared when it gets dark? Why am I scared on a deserted street? I don’t think it should be like this.”

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