FEMEN Turkey branch is active now

Ukraine based feminist protest group FEMEN has opened its Turkey affiliate. FEMEN Turkey Twitter page has announced the new development : We announce the debut of FEMEN Turkey office! Join Guntulu! Fight for democracy in your country.

Guntulu is the name of the young topless Turkish woman in the photo below whose boobs are painted to Turkish flag while her protest fist is all the way up. FEMEN is known for its topless protests. The abusive messages left under the photo of Guntulu shows that FEMEN members will have hard time in Turkey.

FEMEN Turkey Twitter account was suspended for half an hour but later activated again. The first message about Turkey after the opening was about ODTU (Middle East Technical University) in Ankara where students are protesting the government who is determined to cut 3,000 trees in ODTU forest.

Back in late July, Turkish daily newspaper Hurriyet has announced FEMEN's plans to open up a Turkish branch:

We have met Inna Sevcenko in FEMEN Training center and she has said that she supports Taksim Gezi Park protests and FEMEN has drawn huge interest from Turkey. She has also said that to open up FEMEN branch in Turkey they have trained a Turkish woman in FEMEN Paris.
Source : Türk Femen’ler geliyor

Femen Turkey

FEMEN Turkey requested support from Turkısh women. They wrote in twitter and requested women to send them a topless photo where they write political messages on their breasts. A Turkish woman named Didem Dinç has been the first supporter. She has sent a topless photo of herself with "No to war" on her breast.

Didem Dinç