Police detain women protesting gender-segregated universities

Turkish police on Tuesday 16 February detained a number of women protesting against gender-segregated universities, an initiative of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government, in the capital Ankara, reports Ahval.

Duvar news site reported that the group was detained after police prevented the protesters from issuing a statement at Ankara’s Kugulu Park, ripping apart their posters, which said, “We don’t want all-women’s universities.”

The University Women’s Collective, a popular feminist group, has called for the protesters to be released, noting that one of the detainees was a student from Istanbul’s Bogazici University, where weeks-long protests over the appointment of a government-linked rector have made international headlines.
Full report on the Ahval site