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		</div><p>Turkish riot police set up barricades and fired pepper gas to block demonstrators from joining an International Women’s Day march in central Istanbul.</p>
<p>At least 38 women were detained, media reports said.</p>
<p>As in previous years, authorities declared the city’s main square, Taksim, and surrounding areas off-limits for demonstrations.</p>
<p>Riot police then put up metal barricades around Taksim and on side streets leading to the square as well as to a nearby pedestrian thoroughfare.</p>
<p>Police fired the gas to disperse groups of demonstrators who tried to break through police lines. At least one woman fainted, affected by the gas, according to Halk TV broadcaster.</p>
<p>A group of demonstrators meanwhile, were detained as they tried to board a ferry across the Bosporus to join the march, Cumhuriyet newspaper reported.</p>
<p>Demonstrators in Turkey use the March 8 Women’s Day events to press for strong measures to prevent violence against women by former partners or family members.</p>
<p>At least 73 women were killed in Turkey since the start of the year, according to the We Will Stop Femicide Platform.</p>
<p>President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government withdrew Turkey from a European treaty on combating violence against women last year, drawing similar protests and widespread international condemnation.</p>
<p>The move came after some members of Mr Erdogan’s Islam-oriented party advocated a review of the agreement, arguing it ran against Turkey’s conservative values.</p>
<p>Last week, Mr Erdogan promised a set of judicial reforms to curb acts of violence against women.</p>
<p>The measures foresee increased prison terms when the victims of killings, injuries, torture or ill-treatment are women, he said.</p>
<p>They would make persistent stalking a crime and allow authorities to assign free-of-charge lawyers for women victims of violence.</p>
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