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Hundreds of people demonstrated on Saturday in several Turkish cities including Istanbul and Ankara against a move to close one of the country’s most respected women’s rights groups. “It is not possible to stop our fight. We are not going to allow the closure of our association,” the secretary-general of We Will Stop Femicide, Fidan Ataselim, told AFP. An Istanbul prosecutor on Wednesday filed a lawsuit aimed at shutting down the association for “activity against law and morals”. We Will Stop Femicide publicises the murder and abuse of women in the mostly Muslim but officially secular state. A…