After collecting data on femicides for 15 years, the platform pointed out that the only year in which femicides decreased was 2011, when the international Istanbul Convention on violence against women was signed. 

On the other hand, since 2020, when the government’s and Islamists attacks on the convention escalated, there has been an increase in femicides and suspicious deaths. Turkey in 2021 withdrew from the convention.

Graph: Femicides (dark purple) and suspicious deaths (light purple).

While 65 percent, 205 women, were killed in their homes, 18 percent were killed on the streets. Workplaces, cars, deserted places, and hotels were other places where women were killed “dominantly.”

In 2023, 55 percent of the women killed were shot with a firearm, 31 percent were stabbed, and six percent were strangled. In 2022, 60 percent of femicides were committed with firearms as well.

Some 41 percent of the women were killed by the men they were married. In addition, 30 women were in the process of divorce with the perpetrator.

The other perpetrators were partners with 14 percent, acquaintances with 11 percent, previous partners from marriage with nine percent, their son with six percent, and their relatives with six percent.