Violence and crimes against women continue in Turkey. The Turkish news website Bianet published data on the murder of women by men in August 2021.
According to the news compiled by bianet from local and national newspapers, news websites and news agencies, men killed at least 34 women and raped 11 women in Turkey in August 2021.
In August 2021, men killed at least 34 women and four men who were with the women. Last August, men killed 31 women.
One of the male perpetrators was a police officer. One of the women killed by men in August 2021 was from Afghanistan and one woman was Ezidi. A man who killed a woman was "at juvenile age."
Men inflicted violence on at least 61 women in August. This figure was 122 in the same month last year.
Seven women who were subjected to violence from men were hospitalized in a "serious" condition. Men had been systematically violent with at least five women.
One of the women who was subjected to violence from men was from Syria.
The deaths of six children were reported in the press as suspicious in İzmir, Balıkesir, Çankırı, Kocaeli, Bursa and Kırşehir.
In the first eight months of 2021, men killed 208 women, harassed 106 women, abused 98 children and raped 73 women. Men forced at least 429 women to sex work, wounded and inflicted violence on at least 552 women. In the first eight months of 2021, the deaths of 153 women were reported in the press as "suspicious" and men killed at least 21 children.
In the first eight months of 2020, men killed 186 women, harassed 97 women, abused 181 children and raped 53 women. Men forced at least 607 women to sex work and inflicted violence on at least 493 women.