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Nazlan Ertan

Nazlan Ertan

Jun 9, 2020

A woman wears a protective face mask as demonstrators keep social distance by holding onto purple ribbons as they protest for women's rights and against child abuse, amid the spread of the coronavirus, Istanbul, Turkey, May 20, 2020. — REUTERS/Umit Bektas

A woman wearing a face mask raises her fist in Ankara, on August 5, 2020, during a demonstration to demand the government does not withdraw from the Istanbul Conventio, a landmark treaty, on preventing domestic violence. - The protests were the biggest in recent weeks as anger grows over the rising number of women killed by men in the past decade since the Istanbul Convention. The treaty's official title is the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic viol

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