A woman with the initials F.D. was murdered by her husband Mustafa D. with firearm in the town of Çat in Nevşehir province, in central Anatolia region Thursday evening.

The woman had already lost her life by the time medical teams reached the scene.

While the woman’s body was taken to hospital morgue, the man has been taken into police custody.

In its report for the month of July, the ‘We Will Stop Femicide’ Platform (Kadın Cinayetlerini Durduracağız Platformu, KCDP) documented that a total of 36 women were murdered in Turkey within a month. Eleven more women were found dead in a suspicious manner.

92 percent of the victims were killed by violent husbands, friends, former partners or male relatives, five of them "because of financial reasons", thirteen others because they wanted to divorce or separate, rejected men or because they wanted to decide about their own lives.

According to the balance of all the murders recorded by the police and published in the media, in 18 cases it could not be established why the women were killed.

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