Dressed in a long white dress with a high collar, Melek Mosso took out a pair of scissors and cut off two tresses before she started her concert in downtown Istanbul as the audience in the cramped, open-air hall cheered and shouted.
“Tonight, I sing for all women,” Mosso said on Sept. 26, after eight days of protests in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian Kurd, under detention by Iran’s morality police that enforces mandatory hijab rules.
