Very difficult to think of a single legitimate reason this is proportionate, reasonable or a sign of a country where freedoms are respected. That is because the fencing off of Taksim Sq at the heart of Istanbul is none of these things. #IWD2020 #Turkey https://t.co/zPovLxsaJq

In 2011, 121 women were killed. By 2017, that figure was 409, while 440 were killed in 2018.

The killing of 38-year-old Emine Bulut in August last year sparked outrage across the country.

Bulut, who had divorced her husband four years earlier, was stabbed in a cafe in front of her 10-year-old daughter in the central Anatolian city of Kirikkale. She later died in hospital.

A video of the aftermath of the attack was posted online showing Bulut in the cafe, covered in blood, screaming to her daughter: "I don't want to die."

The tearful girl says: "Mum, please don't die."



Turkish women participated in protests to call for protection against such incidents after Bulut's death, but several more women have been killed in the months since, provoking further outrage and calls for legal reform.

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