“The state is killing,” shouts a crowd in Istanbul.
About a few hundred have gathered at the ship landing stage in the Asian district of Kadiköy.
Surrounded by police officers with rifles and gas masks, they protest against the decision of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention, the European Council's agreement to combat violence against women.
Young women in particular came.
Many wear purple breathing masks.
Some waved purple and rainbow flags in the gray, rainy sky.
Others brought banners.
"We want to live" is written on one.
“Not justice for men, but real justice,” it says on another.