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22:05 05/6/2015		Men massacre 26 women in May Research shows that the number of femicides in Turkey is higher than previous tallies: 26 women and girls were killed in femicides in May.
09:28 05/6/2015		Iranian woman artist sentenced to 12 years in prison A court in Tehran has sentenced an Iranian artist to 12 years and nine months in prison for criticising the government and “spreading propaganda against the system”.
11:25 04/6/2015		Women to turn their backs on AKP at the ballot box Women's groups denounced the latest example of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's virulently anti-woman discourse. They say women will give the President the necessary response at the ballot box in Turkey's election, coming up this Sunday.
15:07 03/6/2015		Women to file hate crime charges against Erdoğan The group of women who Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan targeted with sexist remarks for their protest in Iğdır province said they plan to file hate crime charges against him.
12:15 02/6/2015		JINHA reporters: They attack us because we expose them With a recent increase in threats against reporters for JINHA, Turkey and Kurdistan's only all-women and women-oriented news agency, JINHA reporters say those threatening them are doing so because they fear the threat that women-oriented reporting poses to male power.
11:48 02/6/2015		A world-traveled, biochemist woman guerrilla commander YPJ (Women's Protection Units) guerrilla commander Seran Altunkılınç (nom de guerre Seran Anatoliya) lost her life one week ago fighting for the struggle of the liberation of Kurdish women, a struggle she discovered at a young age and for which she eventually gave up a career as a biochemist.
22:34 01/6/2015		Iğdır women protest Erdoğan Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is ongoing his election campaign for the AKP under the pretext of "mass opening ceremony".
11:17 01/6/2015		KJA denounces marriage law change in Turkey After Turkey's ruling AKP pushed for a law that facilitates marriage by only an imam, Kurdish women's group Congress of Free Women (KJA) denounced the decision as an attack on women's power to make decisions.
09:38 30/5/2015		KJA celebrates new legal status The main Kurdish women's movement organization, Congress of Free Women (KJA), celebrated the opening of its headquarters in Diyarbakır on Friday with an opening ceremony.
11:56 29/5/2015		Sakine Cansız Women Academy opened in Nusaybin Sakine Cansız Academy of Women has been opened in Nusaybin district of Mardin.
09:43 29/5/2015		Rojava refugee femicide victim laid to rest Although they did not know her name, Kurdish women activists held a funeral yesterday for a young woman refugee from Rojava who was killed for refusing an arranged marriage.
10:32 27/5/2015		Women lawyers to form assembly in Turkey and Kurdistan Women lawyers are planning an assembly to organize against the legal mechanisms that encourage femicide and violence against women in Turkey.
10:07 27/5/2015		Women march for victims of femicide Women marched through the town of Ergani, Turkey yesterday for two local women attacked in just 10 days. The women took to the streets to condemn the wave of femicide committed with impunity in Kurdistan and Turkey.
11:20 23/5/2015		Women in Ankara rally for Mutlu Kaya Women in the Turkish capital of Ankara held a demonstration of support for 19-year-old Kurdish singer Mutlu Kaya, shot in her home on Monday, and called on all women to develop self-defense tactics against male violence.
11:15 23/5/2015		'First we beat discrimination; next up, electoral threshold' Women migrants who have settled in the village of Yakacık, near Turkey's capital of Ankara, say the village stands behind the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and its anti-discrimination appeal.
09:50 23/5/2015		DİKASUM: Turkish state surrenders woman to femicide A few hours before Hacer Aladak's husband strangled her in the town of Ergani, in Diyarbakır province, she was on her way to a women's shelter run by the Turkish state. Women's groups are asking who is responsible for allowing Aladak's husband to kill her while she was supposedly under state protection.
13:58 21/5/2015		Probe into Paris Massacre finally complete French police's investigation into the 2013 murder of three Kurdish women politicians in Paris' Kurdish institute is complete. If there is no objection from the parties involved within one month, a trial will begin in the case.
13:57 20/5/2015		KJA gaining official status The Kurdish women's group Congress of Free Women (KJA) has taken the first steps to formal legal status in Turkey, applying for the legal status of an association today.
11:57 20/5/2015		Salgado to be transferred out of high-security prison Nestora Salgado, the indigenous woman who has been detained by the Mexican state for the last two years for founding a community self-defense group, will be transferred out of a maximum security prison after a two-week hunger strike related to the conditions of her detention.
11:01 19/5/2015		HDP women pioneering election campaign everywhere The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) women supporters are pioneering the election campaign ahead of June 7th parliamentary elections in order to reach its ambitious goal of exceeding the 10 percent election threshold.