News 11 March 2012, 10:02FEMEN activists deported from Turkey for topless protest near Hagia Sophia Kyiv, March 11, Interfax - Four activists of the Ukrainian movement FEMEN have been deported from Turkey from conducting a protest near Hagia Sophia in Istanbul on the International Women's Day, Channel 5 reported. On Thursday, the FEMEN activists arrived in Istanbul at the invitation of a Turkish lingerie company. After a press conference, the topless activists >>>

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March 10, 2012 | 11:14 ISTANBUL. – The Ukrainian Femen activists, who on Thursday disrobed and carried out a demonstration at Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia Square and were subsequently detained, have been deported from Turkey.After being detained, the Ukrainian activists were taken to police precinct, then to the airport, and afterward they were deported from the country. At the airport however, the Femen members again attempted to demonstrate by taking off their clothes, but the police quickly prevented this, Hurriyet daily of Turkey informs.       The Femen members had come to Istanbul on >>>

Four members of the Femen group, wearing bruise-like makeup, chanted slogans and displayed banners in the one-minute protest in İstanbul to mark International Women's Day on Thursday. Using makeup, they also portrayed themselves women who had been beaten or suffered acid burns at the hands of husbands or in-laws. They were immediately dragged into a police vehicle and driven away. Police took them to Foreigners Department at İstanbul Police Department on Friday and sent them with a civilian car to Atatürk İstanbul International Airport. They were accompanied by police with civilian >>>

Turkish authorities have expelled members of a Ukrainian feminist group from the country after they staged a topless protest to mark International Women's Day on March 8. Turkey's Anatolia news agency reports four women from the Femen rights group were placed on a return flight to Kyiv on March 9, one day after they were detained by police for gathering topless in a popular tourist area in Istanbul and chanting slogans to protest domestic violence and acid attacks against women in Turkey. A member of the group told AP that the protest was meant to highlight the sufferings of >>>

Turkish police detained four activists of the FEMEN women's movement in Istanbul on March 8. Oleksandr Dykusarov, the spokesman for the Foreign Affairs Ministry, announced this to Ukrainian News. According to him, the activists were detained and taken to the local police station after they held an event. The Foreign Affairs Ministry expects to receive more information about the incident from the Ukrainian embassy in Turkey. According to information on FEMEN's blog, four nude FEMEN activists appeared in a square near the St. Sophia Cathedral with placards bearing the slogans "H2SO4 - >>>

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ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey's Parliament marked International Women's Day on Thursday by approving a package of laws aimed at better protecting women and children from abuse. As it vies for European Union membership, Turkey -- a predominantly Muslim country -- is struggling to discard long-held cultural practices that denigrate women in a largely patriarchal society. It also is fighting to curb "honor killings" and murders of women deemed to have tarnished the reputation of their relatives, sometimes by >>>

Police detain one of Ukrainian women's rights activists as they stage a topless demonstration to protest domestic violence against women in Turkey, near the Byzantine-era Haghia Sophia, in Istanbul, Thursday, March 8, 2012, just hours after a man shot dead a female relative. AP Turkey's Parliament marked International Women's Day on Thursday, March 8, by approving a package of laws aimed at better protecting women and children from abuse. As it vies for European Union membership, Turkey — a predominantly Muslim country — is struggling >>>

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