‘Women’s struggle in Turkey is litmus paper’
- 13:44 30/11/2017
İSTANBUL- Stating that in parallel with the attacks on women’s acquisitions and women's rights have increased at Equality, Justice Summit Conference, prof. ...Read Article
İSTANBUL- Stating that in parallel with the attacks on women’s acquisitions and women's rights have increased at Equality, Justice Summit Conference, prof. ...Read Article
İSTANBUL - HDP Üsküdar District Organization Member Asiye Aykan, who was killed by Yılmaz Aykan, was going to houses for housecleaning, was taking part in ...Read Article
ANKARA - Police attacked the “We want our jobs back” action held for 386 days and detained Acun Karadağ and eight people by battering them. Read Article
MARDİN - Stating that the isolation towards PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan, People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Midyat MP Diba Gabriel, wanted attention to her ...Read Article
MARDİN - The funeral of Evin Öz (Zerya Bagok), who is one of person among many people burned to death in the basement that they were stuck in during the ...Read Article
DİYARBAKIR - Curfew has been declared in 42 villages of Diyarbakır’s Silvan, Hazro, Kocaköy, Kulp and Lice districts. Read Article
ISTANBUL - Federation of Socialist Youth Associations (SGDF) Co-chair Ceren Çoban and the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) member Ali Karaçay and ...Read Article
ISTANBUL - Ecology Rights Center, which will serve as an urgent advisory center to learn legal ways in the ecological struggle, has been established in ...Read Article
İZMİR- A 16-year-old child was first subjected to sexual abuse and then forced into prostitution. Her family gathered and decided to execute her. The child ...Read Article
VAN – Êzîdîs’ graves in Qopikan village of Van’s Çaldıran district are being destroyed by treasure hunters. The graves of women buried with their ...Read Article
DİYARBAKIR – Diyarbakır 9th High Criminal Court has ruled for the release pending trial of Ayşe Gökkan, activist of the Free Women’s Movement. Read Article
ANKARA - Fifth hearing of Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, who have been on hunger strike for 264 days, has been held today. The prosecutor has demanded ...Read Article
IĞDIR- A 3-year-old child among the immigrants came to Turkey from Iran froze to death in Iğdır province. Read Article
ISTANBUL – A 16-year-old girl, who was forcibly kidnapped one year ago, has been killed in Istanbul’s Gaziosmanpaşa district by a man named A.Ş. Read Article
DİYARBAKIR - The Hevsel Production Platform organizes tours to Hevsel Gardens every week, this week the tour was organized for children. Read Article
ŞIRNAK – Police raided a home in İdil district of Şırnak province and detained Antika Babat, wife of the İdil People's Assembly Co-chair Hüsnü Babat. Read Article
DİYARBAKIR - Diyarbakır’s Dicle Municipality vice Co-mayor Zelal Abiş Birtane, who was fired by the trustee appointed to the municipality, stated that the ...Read Article
BİTLİS - Curfew has been declared in five villages and six hamlets of Bitlis’ Hizan district due to military operations. Read Article
NEWS CENTER- According to a paper submitted to the UN’s convention on certain conventional weapons (CWW), Turkey is one of the five countries having the ...Read Article
NEWS CENTER- Nuriye Gülmen, who has been on hunger strike for 263 days, sent a message from prison and she said, “I don’t know if I am half of the way but ...Read Article
DİYARBAKIR- In Turkey, where child abuse and violence against children are getting worse each day, thousands of children are behind bars along with their ...Read Article
ADANA-Beylin Durmaz began to produce products made from felt after being retired. Beylin sells her products and she points out how production is important for ...Read Article
ISTANBUL - Grup Yorum (a musical group) members Seher Adıgüzel and Sultan Gökçek have been jailed. Read Article
ANKARA - Police attacked the protesters on the 382nd day of “We want our jobs back” action on Yüksel Avenue and detained a woman saying, “Today is ...Read Article
SHENGAL - Free Êzidî Women's Movement (TAJÊ) organized an activity on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, ...Read Article
DİYARBAKIR - Free Women’s Movement (TJA) issued a press statement in Diyarbakır’s Koşuyolu Park within the scope of the International Day for the ...Read Article
İZMİR - Women members of the United Metal Workers Union of the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey (DİSK) have opened a petition stand in ...Read Article
NEWS CENTER - “Women have become conscious against male power and rebelled against the slavery with the free ideas of Leader Apo (Abdullah Öcalan). The ...Read Article
NEWS CENTER - Pictures drawn by jailed journalist Zehra Doğan were exhibited in Geneva. Amnesty International Geneva Representative Emily Baud made a speech ...Read Article
ISTANBUL - On the International Transgender Day of Remembrance, killed transgender people were memorialized in the person of Hande Kader. Read Article
ANKARA - Police attacked the “We want our jobs back” action held to support Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça for 378 days and detained seven people. Read Article
ANKARA – HDP Co-chair Serpil Kemalbay made a speech during the party’s group meeting and she said, “We are responsible for the millions who elected us. ...Read Article
ANKARA - The Socialist Women's Assembly (SKM) activist Burcu Durak was taken into custody in front of the Dikmen gate of the Turkish Grand National Assembly on ...Read Article
NEWS CENTER- On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, November 25, YJP Spokesperson Nesrin Abdullah commented on ...Read Article
MERSİN - Families went to Tarsus T-type Closed Prison to have open visit with their relatives; however, they were told ‘Visit canceled’ and they were ...Read Article
ELAZIĞ - A Kurdish student at Elazığ Fırat University, S.B. was attacked by a racist group. S.B. has been taken to intensive care unit and the university ...Read Article
ANKARA – Police attacked the “We want our jobs back” action held to support Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça and detained five people. Read Article
NEWS CENTER- A seminar was held at the Kurdish Community Center in Germany on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against ...Read Article
NEWS CENTER- Marta Vasquez, one of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina, died at 90 years old. Read Article
ANKARA – LGBTI organizations in Ankara react to the indefinite ban on all activities of LGBTI organizations imposed by the Ankara Governorate and they ...Read Article
DİYARBAKIR - Diyarbakır women demanded freedom for PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan and said, “Freedom of our leader is the freedom of the Kurdish people.” Read Article
MARDİN - An armored vehicle hit and injured a woman named Fatma Nure Dursun in Dargeçit district of Mardin province. Read Article
ANKARA – Ankara Governorate has banned indefinitely all activities to be organized by LGBTI in the city for protecting ‘social sensitivity’, ‘public ...Read Article
DİYARBAKIR –Women of KESK, DİSK, TMMOB, DTO and DİK have shared their activities to be organized for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence ...Read Article
ADANA- A 14-year-old child named Z.Y. was tried to be forced into marriage in Adana province by her family. Women reported that to the police and the child’s ...Read Article
YOZGAT- A woman named Habibe Karadavut was killed in the Sorgun district of Yozgat province by a man named Salih Karadavut. Read Article
ADANA –“We work the most but our salary isn’t increased,” said the women working in packing plant for citrus. Read Article
DİYARBAKIR- “Everyone knows that the salvation of the peoples, particularly of the women, depends on the freedom of Abdullah Öcalan,” said Gülistan ...Read Article
VAN – ‘Nutrition centers’ opened by Van Metropolitan Municipality for the street animals have been turned into garbage dumps after the appointed of ...Read Article
SULEYMANIYAH- Young women in Ranya made a statement on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, November 25 and they said they ...Read Article