Data access

Academic research and civil society

The dataset can be downloaded from Zenodo without an application. It is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence and may be used for any purpose with attribution.

• Documented people killed in homicides, homicide cases and armed assaults in the 81 provinces in 2023–2025, with rates per 100,000 people and indices
• Intimate partner and family homicides and femicides; distribution of cases by offender–victim relationship and method
• Monthly series for each province
• National totals and the national figure (official figure or coverage-corrected estimate)
• Codebook and readme in Turkish and English (PDF)

Download from Zenododoi:10.5281/zenodo.23764115

The dataset is made available free of charge to researchers and civil society organisations who accept the terms of use. To obtain access, first complete the application form on this page. Once the application is approved, the access step on Zenodo is sent to you by email.

• Case-level records of fatal homicides (year, month, province, district, method, number of people killed, offender–victim relationship, sex of victim and offender)
• Annual homicide and armed assault counts for 973 districts
• Data for 2023–2025; earlier years are added to the same record as new versions as they are prepared

Fill in the application formdoi:10.5281/zenodo.23764116

Exact dates, neighbourhood-level location, other offence types and continuous updates are covered by the institutional licence.

1. The data are used only in the academic research, thesis or civil society work described in the application. Commercial use is prohibited.
2. Neither the data nor any part of them is shared with third parties, redistributed, or placed in a public repository or in the supplementary files of a publication. Case records are not listed individually in publications. Each researcher in the same project submits their own access request.
3. Rankings, indices, scores or maps derived from the data below province level (district, neighbourhood) are not offered as a service, application, website or regular publication. Aggregated findings, tables and maps may be given in academic publications.
4. No attempt is made to identify persons or incidents from the records, and the data are not linked with other sources for that purpose.
5. Every publication, thesis, report and presentation that uses the data, or relies on findings derived from them, gives the reference below in its reference list. The data availability statement gives the DOI of the dataset.
6. The reference and link of any work published or accepted for publication are sent to info@sucendeksi.com.
7. Student applications give the supervisor's name and institutional email address; the supervisor shares responsibility with the student for conducting the work in accordance with these terms. For applications made with a personal email address, a letter from the institution is requested before approval.

Where the data are used contrary to these terms, access is withdrawn and the user's institution is informed. Where a publication does not meet the citation requirement, the journal or publisher is also informed.

Every publication that uses the data gives the reference below in its reference list and cites it in the text as (Koytak, 2026). Citation is required by the licence for the open dataset and by the terms of use for the restricted dataset.