"Television pictures showed riot police charging protesters, beating them with batons and kicking them on the ground. One policeman beat a woman to the ground with his baton, then another ran up and kicked her in the face."
"Turkish women do enjoy greater freedoms than those in many other Muslim nations. For decades they have had the right to vote, access to education and the right to divorce.
But gender equality is not enshrined in the constitution, and religious tradition often prevents equal treatment.
Up to half of women face domestic abuse in a 'culture of violence,' Amnesty International has said. Dozens of women are murdered by family members each year in so-called honour killings."
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