(ANSA) — ISTANBUL, NOVEMBER 26 — Dozens of protesters who gathered to celebrate the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women were arrested in Istanbul.
Afp reports it.
A massive deployment of riot police attempted to prevent the unauthorized gathering in the iconic Taksim Square by erecting barricades and barricades blocking roads in a wide radius from the Bosphorus shores.
At the call of the “Platform of 25 November”, a coalition of feminist movements, hundreds of demonstrators, some veiled, sang “Woman, Life, Freedom” in Turkish and Kurdish and took up the anthem of the Iranian women who oppose the regime of the Iran fight mullahs.
Under Taksim Square, which was blocked by a cordon of police, a group of activists displayed a banner praising freedom and against “patriarchal violence”. Other banners carried slogans against “domestic slavery” or against gender-based violence. “This country is ours, this world is ours, the 21st century is the century of women and nothing can change that,” cried one activist.
With a crackdown on most public gatherings, women’s and LGBT movements are the latest to call large-scale protests in Turkey. (HAND).
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