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  • We Will Stop Femicide Platform February 2018 report indicated that 47 women were killed by men during the 28 day period.[157] 
  • The Platform to Stop Murders of Women (Kadın Cinayetlerini Durduracağız Platformu) reported 237 murders of women in 2013, the vast majority of whom had been killed by partners, ex-partners, and family members.[3]
  • Most alarming, hundreds of women, children and elderly are among approximately 1,200 local residents killed between July 2015 and December 2016 in the context of security operations in Southeast Turkey.[4] 
  • The Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ revealed in February 2017 that at least 5 women have died under suspicious circumstances at the women’s prison in Kocaeli’s Gebze district, during the second half of 2016.[25] 
  • There are several figures reported in the Turkish media which put the number of women in prison at 6,616 as of March 2016 and 7,894 as of November 2016. The number of women under custody pending trial tripled from 1,157 in March 2016 to 3,235 in November 2016. It is estimated that around 17,000 women are currently under custody across Turkey.[32] 
  • Considering that Turkish prisons have a capacity of 180,176 the overcrowded jails present significant problems. There are only six prisons (one is an open prison) in Turkey specifically dedicated to women, while many women were incarcerated in prisons built just for men. Although women are kept in a separate section of these prisons, they are not allowed to enjoy their rights because of the lack of facilities specifically built to address women needs.[38] 
  • Turkey’s Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu informed on April 2, 2017 that 113,260 people had been detained for alleged links to the Hizmet movement. Of these, 47,155 were formally arrested and put behind bars pending trial in the last eight months alone. Based on these figures, several estimates were reported by Turkish media outlets that the number of detained women is around 17,000; 560 babies are also into custody along with their mothers.[39] 
  • At least 21 women were detained on September 5th as part of an investigation into the alleged “female network” of the Hizmet movement, accused of either providing financial support to the movement or involved in some form in its allegedly confidential activities (September 2016). Detention warrants had earlier been issued against 31women, while 12 other women who had been detained in a separate investigation into the movement in Zonguldak (Black Sea region), were referred to court, on September 5, 2016.[42]

  • According to country’s left-wing Kemalist daily, Sözcü, an anonymous judge in a letter from prison stated she was arrested when she was in the 16th week of her pregnancy. Detained in August 2016 she was kept for 2 months in a room with 13 other female judges, in the Mersin’s Tarsus prison (October 2016).[43]
  • According to state-run Anadolu news agency, 17 women were detained on December 14, as part of an investigation into the Hizmet movement in Tekirdağ (Eastern Thrace). Four were arrested and one was released on probation; the remaining 12 were waiting to give their testimonies (December 2016).[44] 
  • On January 5, detention warrants were issued for the wives of 105 military officers as part of an investigation into the Hizmet movement. Police officers were ordered to carry out operations in 31 different provinces. Detained women included the wives of 40 majors, 40 lieutenants, 14 lieutenant colonels, 14 first lieutenants and 2 colonels. Turkish media reported that the 105 military officers were already imprisoned over coup charges. The 105 women, among them teachers, academics, sociologists, and many other public workers, were accused of cheating in a countrywide exam popularly known as the KPSS to qualify for public jobs in 2010, among other accusations, including money deposit into Bank Asya (January 2017).[45] 
  • At a parliamentary hearing it was revealed that at least 5 women have suspiciously died at the women’s prison in Kocaeli’s Gebze district since the attempted coup (January 2017).[46] 
  • İstanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants for 73 women on January 13, as part of an investigation into the Hizmet movement (January 2017).[48]
  • 21 women, including 10 with newborn infants and two over 70-years of age were detained in Afyon’s Dinar district as part an investigation into the Hizmet movement. Investigations carried out against 21 women whose husbands are in prison over links to the Hizmet movement, were allegedly aiming at pressuring their husbands to sign testimonies against their free will (February 2017).[50]

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1. UN WOMEN - Phumzile Mlambo , Executive Director of UN Women Twitter: @phumzileunwomen Mailing Address: CSW Communications Procedure Human Rights Section UN Women 220 East 42nd Street, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10017 USA E-mail: cp-csw@unwomen.org Phone: +1 646 781-4400 | Fax: +1 646 781-4444 | Official Website: www.unwomen.org - Europe and Central Asia Regional Office Mailing Address: Abide-i Hürriyet Cad. İstiklal Sok., No:11 KEY Plaza Kat:8, 34381 Şişli, İstanbul, TURKEY E-mail: eca.operations@unwomen.org | Website: eca.unwomen.org 2. UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL (UN HRC) Twitter: @UN_HRC | Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UNHRC Civil Society Section Phone Number: +41 22 917 9656 | E-mail: civilsociety@ohchr.org 3. COMMISSION ON SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE, U.S. HELSINKI COMMISSION Mailing Address: 234 Ford House Office Building, 3rd and D Streets SW, Washington, DC 20515 Phone: 202-225-1901 |
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1. Case of Nesibe Ozer Nesibe Özer, Head of the 2nd Chamber of the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) was detained during the rst days after the attempted coup for alleged links to the Hizmet movement. According to her lawyer on September 9 she was placed in solitary con nement in the Bakırköy Prison in Istanbul. Özer began a hunger strike on September 27 to protest the solitary con nement and the lack of a response to her petition.  2. Case of A.B. On October 14, 2016, the prisoner A.B., a kidney patient, was se- verely beaten and dragged into her cell by prison guards while she was having a phone conversation with her mother. She was subsequently sent to the in rmary where she was referred to a general hospital. According to the daily newspaper that rst revealed the case, A.B. was still being held in Silivri prison by the end of October 2016, despite her continuous bleeding.  3. Case of Beatriz
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REPORTS About Women Rights in Turkey

1. Report on the impact of the state of emergency on human rights in Turkey, including an update on the South-East http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/TR/2018-03-19_Second_OHCHR_Turkey_Report.pdf   March 2018 / (29 Pages) The present report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) provides an overview of key human rights concerns in Turkey in the period between January and December 2017, with a focus on the consequences of the state of emergency on the enjoyment of human rights. The findings of OHCHR point to a constantly deteriorating human rights situation, exacerbated by the erosion of the rule of law. OHCHR notes with concern that the emergency decrees foster impunity and lack of accountability by affording legal, administrative, criminal and financial immunity to administrative authorities acting within the framework of the decrees. 2. Women’s Rights Under Attack in Turkey  http://jwf.org/wp-content/uploads/2017
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