{"id":36300,"date":"2026-03-09T17:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/36300\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T17:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:49:10","slug":"thousands-march-in-istanbul-for-womens-day-despite-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/36300\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands march in \u0130stanbul for Women\u2019s Day despite ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thousands of women marched through \u0130stanbul to mark International Women\u2019s Day late Sunday, defying a ban on demonstrations, with the rally taking place without incident despite a heavy police presence, Agence France-Presse reported.<\/p>\n

Although the authorities shut several nearby metro stations and issued a ban on demonstrations, the Feminist Night March was allowed to go ahead. Huge crowds of women, many dressed in purple, chanted slogans and blew whistles.<\/p>\n

The demonstrators packed the streets of Cihangir neighborhood, some carrying parasols garlanded in fairy lights, others waving a sea of colorful banners with slogans such as: \u201cKurdish for Women, life, freedom,\u201d \u201cFemicides are political!\u201d or even \u201cMy favorite season is the fall of the patriarchy.\u201d<\/p>\n

There were cheers, dancing and purple flares at the end as organizers read out a statement of support for women affected by the Middle East war.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn these times when the world is being turned upside down, we remind each other that we must not succumb to this darkness, become accustomed to despair, or accept the order created by men,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile resisting Islamist dictatorial regimes on the one hand, we join our voices with women who, in the face of US and Israeli aggression, are saying: Our freedom will not come from you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018I don\u2019t feel safe\u2019<\/p>\n

Dilan Aydemir, a 25-year-old student, said she was there to stand against the exploitation, violence and poverty suffered by women.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t feel safe, nor do any of my friends,\u201d she told Agence France-Presse.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only thing that will make us feel safe is the struggle we wage together,\u201d she added. Marches like this one were \u201cvery precious to us because we draw strength from one another.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also spoke of a landmark 2011 international treaty aimed at preventing and prosecuting violence against women, which Turkey was the first to sign but then pulled out of a decade later.<\/p>\n

Since Turkey pulled out of the convention, incidents of gender violence have risen in Turkey, say women\u2019s rights groups.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo stand against harassment, violence and poverty, the Istanbul Convention must be signed again,\u201d\u00a0said Aydemir.<\/p>\n

Benan Koyuncu, a 40-year-old doctor, said she was marching for some of the women she treated, victims of beating or attacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI work in the emergency room and often deal with women who have been subjected to violence,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m here for them.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not like it was 10 or 20 years ago, women have won many rights through struggle,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey fought against male domination, against the patriarchy, and they are winning in the streets. And we will win, I trust this crowd,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Several thousand women also gathered on the Asian side of \u0130stanbul during the day, and demonstrations took place in nine other cities across Turkey, organizers said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of women marched through \u0130stanbul to mark International Women\u2019s Day late Sunday, defying a ban on demonstrations,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[21050,1508,21051,312,19877,131,132,155,1512],"class_list":{"0":"post-36300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-stockholm","8":"tag-fatos-erdogan","9":"tag-femicides","10":"tag-feminist-night-march","11":"tag-human-rights","12":"tag-international-womens-day","13":"tag-stockholm","14":"tag-sweden","15":"tag-turkey","16":"tag-womens-rights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116200483523275077","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}