Istanbul: women in the streets for November 25th. Many protesters arrested

International

for the Elimination of Violence against Women in Istanbul is marked by arrested protesters.

This was reported by the French agency AFP.

police

attempted to prevent the gathering called in the emblematic Taksim Square, which had not been authorized, by installing barriers and barriers that blocked the streets in a vast perimeter starting from the banks of the Bosphorus.

At the call of the "November 25 Platform", a coalition of

hundreds of demonstrators, including some veiled women, sang "Woman, Life, Freedom" in Turkish and Kurdish, taking up the anthem of Iranian women fighting against the mullahs' regime.

Blocked by a police cordon under

, a group of women activists displayed a banner praising freedom and against

.

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Istanbul women protests

"The

who do not intervene against perpetrators of violence against women have closed all the roads leading to

in the name of security," protested Yesim Tukel, a member of the 25 November platform.

We are here to say that we will not submit and we will not remain silent, neither before the holy family, nor before the state, ”another activist,

, assured him .

"This country is ours, this world is ours, the 21st century

and nothing can change that," she added.

Public, women's and LGBT movements are the latest to call large protests in Turkey.

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Istanbul women protests