A women’s rights protest in the Turkish city of Ankara was broken up by riot police on Sunday, with tear gas fired into the crowd and more than a dozen women arrested.

Women were marching through Ankara ahead of International Women’s Day, waving banners bearing messages including “we are getting stronger in solidarity”. They had tear gas used against them after they ignored calls from police to disperse. Around 15 women were reportedly detained.

The Ankara protest coincided with a separate demonstration in Istanbul, where around 1,500 women marched in opposition to Turkey’s military campaign against Syrian Kurdish militia.

Much like in the US, the provocative misogyny of Turkey’s leader has prompted a groundswell of feminist sentiment in the country. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been accused of using his opposition to women’s rights as a way of shoring up support from his conservative religious base: he has done little to tackle the growing problem of domestic violence in Turkey, declared that women are not equal to men and allowed Muslim clerics to conduct civil marriages (a move that critics say could lead to more child brides). In 2016, his party also attempted to change the law so that men who raped underage girls could escape punishment by marrying their victims.

To read more on the protests in Ankara and Istanbul, visit time.com.

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