Turkish police detained four Ukrainian feminists who staged a topless protest in one of the busiest spots of Istanbul on Thursday, said an AFP photographer. Four activists of the Femen group chanted slogans and unfurled banners outside Hagia Sophia church, now a museum, to protest against domestic violence in Turkey and to express solidarity with female victims of acid attacks. Shortly after the group's protest marking International Women's Day, police rushed to the scene and dragged the activists into a police vehicle. Femen, a small but feisty feminist group based in Ukraine, operates under >>>

ANKARA, Turkey - Parliament marked International Women’s Day on Thursday by approving a package of laws aimed at better protecting women and children from abuse. Turkey, as it vies for European Union membership, is struggling to discard long-held cultural practices that denigrate women in a largely patriarchal society. The predominantly Muslim country also is fighting to curb “honor killings’’ of women deemed to have tarnished the reputation of their relatives, sometimes by having a premarital affair or a child out of wedlock. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan >>>

Four Ukrainian FEMEN activists staged one of their trademark bare-breasted protests in Istanbul today, to demonstrate against domestic violence in Turkey. The four women wore make-up on their faces and bodies to make them appear battered, bruised and disfigured by acid. Standing in the midst of busy downtown Istanbul, they held up signs and banners and were quickly dragged away and detained by police. According to FEMEN’s Live Journal site, the activists are still in detention and have yet to be charged with a crime. They have not been allowed to talk to lawyers. The FEMEN demonstation occurred >>>

Celebration of International Women's Day in Turkey is overshadowed by the news that so far this year, one woman was killed nearly every day in Turkey as a result of domestic violence. The government on Thursday passed legislation to combat abuse directed against women, but concerns remain about the implementation of the reforms.Domestic violence In the heart of Istanbul, semi-naked women covered in artificial blood protested against domestic violence to mark International Women's Day. The demonstrators, members of the Ukraine-based women's rights group Femen, were quickly arrested. Turkish women >>>

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ANKARA, Turkey -- ANKARA, Turkey (AP) Ukrainian women's rights activists have staged a topless demonstration to protest domestic violence against women in Turkey, just hours after a man shot dead a female relative after she left home following an argument with her husband. Four members of the Femen group, wearing bruise-like makeup, chanted slogans and displayed banners in the one-minute protest in Istanbul to mark International Women's Day on Thursday. They were immediately dragged into a police vehicle and driven >>>

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Only a day after the topless protest in the Moscow’s polling station, which ended up with prison sentences for three FEMEN activists, Femen made news covers with another scandal – this time in a live TV show on Ukrainian television. After being given a word in a special edition of Shuster live programme dedicated to Russia’s presidential election, the FEMEN activist Aleksandra Shevchenko used an opportunity to call for a renewal of the opposition protests in Ukraine instead. Her statement wasn’t welcomed by the MP of Ukraine’s ruling Party of Regions, Vadym Kolesnichenko, >>>

Moscow: President-elect and machoman Vladimir Putin shed a tear, Femen activists from Ukraine took off their bras and tried to steal a ballot box at the polling station where Putin and his wife Lyudmila cast their vote, and the Opposition shed light on largescale rigging during the presidential elections.Putin, whose new presidential mandate is for six years, will return to the Kremlin at a time of rapid social change in a Russia that is seeing an increasingly critical middle-class and an explosion in Internet use. But these concerns did not spoil Putin's mood on Monday night as he addressed over >>>

The activists of Ukrainian group Femen, who protested naked at a polling station in Moscow where Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin cast his vote Sunday, could be barred from entering Russia. A local court Monday sentenced the Femen activists up to 12 days of administrative arrests, RT reported. "The Russian Federal Migration Service decided that it was undesirable for the Ukrainian women to stay in the Russian Federation. This decision will make them to leave our country and can be a reason for banning the entry to Russia," Itar-Tass news reported a press service from Russia's Interior Ministry >>>