Women perform the Chilean anti-rape song during a demonstration against gender violence in Istanbul, Turkey December 15, 2019. REUTERS/Kemal Aslan
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Female Turkish lawmakers sang a Chilean song in parliament that has been taken up in demonstrations globally to protest violence against women, and displayed photographs of women who have been killed.
Unofficial data compiled by a Turkish advocacy group shows men murdered 440 women in the country last year, more than doubling from 2012 when Ankara passed a law to protect women. Turkey does not keep official statistics on femicide.
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