Turkish women’s group targeted as Erdoğan fans flames of ‘culture war’

International Women’s Day in Istanbul in March. We Will Stop Femicide has accused the Erdoğan government of ‘sowing social division’ among Turkish women. Photograph: Sedat Suna/EPA

Turkish public prosecutors have sparked outrage among feminists by demanding the closure of the country’s largest women’s rights group accusing it of being “against morality”.

We Will Stop Femicide (WWSF) has been issued with a letter demanding the group is dissolved on public security grounds and organisers now face a lengthy court battle to stay open. The prosecutors claim the group broke the law and acted with immorality by “disintegrating the family structure by ignoring the concept of the family under the guise of defending women’s rights”.