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Eight women were reportedly killed by men in Turkey over the past two days, a women’s rights group said on Wednesday as they called for protests this weekend. In seven cases, the perpetrators were the victims’ partners or ex-partners, the rights group We Will Stop Femicide wrote on social media platform X, formerly Twitter, on Wednesday. Another woman was allegedly killed by her father. “The data is not a coincidence,” the group wrote, criticizing the government for undermining laws that protect women. It argued that politicians’ description of the family as a “sacred” institution played a rol…

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