News Center- We Will Stop Femicide Platform has released its 2022 August report on femicide. At least 33 women were killed, 15 more died under suspicious circumstances in August, the report said. As the platform, we have released a monthly report on femicide since 2010.  Instead of reporting how many women were killed, why, how and by whom, the Ministry of Interior bends the truth by saying that the figures on femicide cases are incorrect. The duty of the state is to announce the femicide and suspicious deaths of women cases and put concrete solutions into practice to stop femicide. We will continue to struggle for the mobilization of all relevant ministries and mechanisms to fulfill this duty,” the platform said in the report.

“While the excuses of men for killing 17 women were not determined, 14 women were killed by men on the excuse that they asked for a divorce, refused marriage, or dating proposal, two women were killed for financial reasons,” the report said.

Women were killed by whom?

According to the report, 15 women were killed by their husbands, one by her ex-husband, five by their partners, three by their relatives, one by her son, one by a man she met on the internet, three by men they did not know. 45% of 33 women were killed by their husbands in August.

20 of 33 women were killed at their homes, four in their workplaces, one in a car, two in fields, two in deserted places, one in a street, one near a river, one at a bus station, the place where one woman was killed has not been determined, the report said.

 How were women killed?

 The report also included how women were killed by men. “Men killed 21 women with firearms, eight with sharp objects such as knives and axes, one by battering her, one by choking, one by throwing her from a high place, how a woman was killed could not be determined.”