(Turkey) Despite the government’s ban on March 8th, thousands of women gathered in Istanbul to voice their rights, protesting Erdogan and called him to resign. Police didn’t let women to enter Istiklal Avenue, protests are happening in the side streets

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1. [Source](https://www.birgun.net/haber/21-feminist-gece-yuruyusu-taksim-ablukada-yasagi-tanimayan-kadinlar-alanlarda-424057) (There are videos of the protests in the link if anyone is interested)

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   Turkish poet Nazım Hikmet once said: “There is no fear like the fear of the one who betrays their people”

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   Turkey is 67 days away from the elections.

2. This is very courageous of these women. I wonder how many will be around…

3. Serius question. What will happen with public protests (womens, lgbt) etc and political prisoners if the opposition is elected?

4. 👏👏👏

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6. “Government’s ban on March 8th”? What’s that?

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8. They say they’ll throw out the cases and release those who are innocent, but political cases are the bread and butter of Turkish politics since the 60s, so we’ll see.

9. Hopefully Turkey will have gender equality some day