16:30 08/5/2015 |
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As protests in Mahabad continue for Ferinaz Xosrawanî, women in the Northern Kurdistan city of Diyarbakır held a sit-in against the Iranian regime and rape culture.
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13:59 08/5/2015 |
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The Free Women’s Congress (Kongreya Jinen Azad, KJA) has issued a statement calling on all women to protest the Iranian regime after the suicide of Ferinaz Xosrawani.
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08:34 07/5/2015 |
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Musician Değer Deniz has been found dead in her home in Istanbul's Beyoğlu district.
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19:07 06/5/2015 |
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The KJA Coordination has visited Peace Envoy and sick prisoner Aysel Doğan. Doğan called for solidarity with Kobanê and Sinjar and election campaigning to be stepped up. Doğan said the campaign should be carried on for all sick prisoners, not just for her.
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10:14 05/5/2015 |
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A group of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) protesters marched on May 4 in Turkey’s capital city Ankara, after four transgender women were recently the targets of violence.
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19:06 28/4/2015 |
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A group of women occupied the Istanbul building of Turkey’s Ministry of Family and Social Policies, demanding justice for victims of rape in Izmir’s Şakran Prison. Police intervened and violently arrested the women.
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10:07 24/4/2015 |
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Police have set up barricades to stop a group of women protesting the abduction of two teenage girls in Siirt recently.
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10:21 18/4/2015 |
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Families of Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez, who were murdered in Paris on 9 January 2013, complained that French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has not kept his promise to shed light on the killings. Lawyers have on the other hand stated that the intelligence reports on which the French government has partially lifted restrictions contained information already known.
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13:28 15/4/2015 |
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Feminist artists drew Nevin Yıldırım onto sheets which they then hung in the streets, with the maxim: “We are divulging all the injustices we are experiencing, one sheet at a time, to secure justice for women!”
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10:19 14/4/2015 |
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Women shut down traffic in the Northern Kurdish city of Van yesterday in a march that took place as part of their month-long campaign against violence against women in the province.
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10:58 12/4/2015 |
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In protest against male domination of public space, women held a sit-in on the sidewalks of the city of Cizre, in Northern Kurdistan.
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09:56 11/4/2015 |
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An LGBTI organization started a petition following the decision of the rectorate of Inonu University to ban the panel to which Kaos GL was invited.
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13:09 10/4/2015 |
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The French government has announced that they will be lifting the confidentiality of some documents related to the murder of three Kurdish women in Paris in2013.
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10:41 10/4/2015 |
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Sonçicek Kocaağa, the women in the southeastern province of Siirt who died under suspicious circumstances while pregnant, was buried yesterday.
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12:44 09/4/2015 |
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With its recent parliamentary candidate list drawing attention for its 48% ratio of women, the opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) is aiming to defeat patriarchal power in Turkey's Parliament in this June's election. Ayşe Erdem, HDP Istanbul provincial co-chair, said the new list is the culmination of years of struggle by women for equal representation in politics.
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09:43 09/4/2015 |
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A worldwide campaign has been initiated for the freedom of Kurdish woman political prisoner Zelyep Celaliyan. The KJAR (Free Women’s Society of Eastern Kurdistan) is pioneering the freedom campaign and has conducted campaigns in lots of cities. Meanwhile, Celaliyan’s health is in a critical condition. Although there is the acute risk of blindness, internal bleeding, and intestinal and digestive problems, she is being denied for any medical treatment by Iranian regime.
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09:25 09/4/2015 |
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According to bianet’s tally, men massacred at least 27 women in March. 18.5 percent of the women were killed because they wanted to split up and 18.5 percent had lodged a complaint against their killer before they were murdered. One man murdered his six-month-old baby because she was a girl.
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11:01 08/4/2015 |
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Educational workers demonstrated against what they called the "absurd investigation" of a fellow educational worker who made a snow woman in Maraş. The charges against educational worker Çilem Sakine Coşkun called the snow woman an affront to "social values."
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14:41 03/4/2015 |
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Women’s Guerrilla Army YJA Star (Free Women’s Troops) guerrillas staged a 'Freedom March' in "Medya Defense Zones" to mark Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan's birthday, April 4.
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11:08 03/4/2015 |
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Zeyneb Celaliyan, a female Kurdish political prisoner born in 1982 in Maku, city of Rojhelat (Eastern Kurdistan), is a Kurdish political activist who committed her life to women’s rights and the participation of Kurdish women in politics. She was especially engaged in educating girls and women politically in an effort to challenge the patriarchal and male dominated system within the region. At the time of her arrest, she resided in Başur (Southern Kurdistan). However, Jalaliyan often travelled across the border to Rojhalat, where she encouraged women to gain selfawareness and stand up for their rights. Her efforts were deeply centered on challenging sexism within society, not only for Kurdish women but all women that she came into contact with.
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