"Kav says the Turkish government systematically undercounts femicides. WWSF collect its own data and says 2024 was a record year for violence against women, recording 394 femicides and 258 suspicious deaths, 40 of which were attributed to falling.

What frustrates Kav is that forensics experts have ways to judge whether someone was pushed or fell. Researchers from the Netherlands developed computer modelling several years ago to answer this question. Campaigners in Turkey scored a landmark victory in 2019 with the conviction of businessman Çağatay Aksu for the killing of Şule Çet, a 23-year-old student, after a physics report by a forensics expert proved he had pushed her from the 20th floor of an Ankara high-rise. In Kav’s view, suspicious “deaths by falling” could be conclusively investigated with proper forensics."

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jan/31/why-are-so-many-turkish-women-falling-to-their-deaths

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‘There’s no way my daughter would have jumped’: why are so many Turkish women falling to their deaths?

Every year in Turkey, hundreds of women are recorded as having taken their lives by ‘throwing themselves from a high place’. But many grieving families maintain that investigators are missing the full story

The Guardian

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