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  1. Men massacre 26 women in May
    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.

    🕔22:05 05/6/2015 Read Full Article
  2. Iranian woman artist sentenced to 12 years in prison
    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”.

    🕔09:28 05/6/2015 Read Full Article
  3. Women to turn their backs on AKP at the ballot box
    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 ...

    🕔11:25 04/6/2015 📷1 Read Full Article
  4. Women to file hate crime charges against Erdoğan
    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.

    🕔15:07 03/6/2015 📷2 Read Full Article
  5. JINHA reporters: They attack us because we expose them
    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 ...

    🕔12:15 02/6/2015 📷3 Read Full Article
  6. A world-traveled, biochemist woman guerrilla commander
    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 ...

    🕔11:48 02/6/2015 📷2 Read Full Article
  7. Iğdır women protest Erdoğan
    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".

    🕔22:34 01/6/2015 📷1 Read Full Article
  8. KJA denounces marriage law change in Turkey
    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 ...

    🕔11:17 01/6/2015 Read Full Article
  9. KJA celebrates new legal status
    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.

    🕔09:38 30/5/2015 📷1 Read Full Article
  10. Sakine Cansız Women Academy opened in Nusaybin
    Sakine Cansız Women Academy opened in Nusaybin

    Sakine Cansız Academy of Women has been opened in Nusaybin district of Mardin.

    🕔11:56 29/5/2015 📷1 Read Full Article
  11. Rojava refugee femicide victim laid to rest
    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.

    🕔09:43 29/5/2015 📷1 Read Full Article
  12. Women lawyers to form assembly in Turkey and Kurdistan
    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.

    🕔10:32 27/5/2015 📷1 Read Full Article
  13. Women march for victims of femicide
    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 ...

    🕔10:07 27/5/2015 📷1 Read Full Article
  14. Women in Ankara rally for Mutlu Kaya
    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 ...

    🕔11:20 23/5/2015 📷1 Read Full Article
  15. 'First we beat discrimination; next up, electoral threshold'
    '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.

    🕔11:15 23/5/2015 📷3 Read Full Article
  16. DİKASUM: Turkish state surrenders woman to femicide
    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 ...

    🕔09:50 23/5/2015 📷1 Read Full Article
  17. Probe into Paris Massacre finally complete
    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 ...

    🕔13:58 21/5/2015 📷1 Read Full Article
  18. KJA gaining official status
    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.

    🕔13:57 20/5/2015 📷1 Read Full Article
  19. Salgado to be transferred out of high-security prison
    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 ...

    🕔11:57 20/5/2015 Read Full Article
  20. HDP women pioneering election campaign everywhere
    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 ...

    🕔11:01 19/5/2015 📷1 Read Full Article

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