International Women's Day

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Kadıköy Municipality on Women’s Day Banners

Kadıköy Municipality on Women’s Day Banners

Kadıköy Mayor Aykurt Nuhoğlu has replied to reactions against banners hung for International Women’s Day: “I don’t think it does any harm to them. May they not be interested in people’s expressing themselves”.

4 March 2016 Beyza Kural

Thousands of Women Take Streets on March 8

Thousands of Women Take Streets on March 8

Thousands of women flocked to Istanbul’s Istiklal Avenue to attend the 13th Istanbul Reclaim the Night Feminist March last night - an annual walk on March 8 International Working Women's Day.

9 March 2015 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

Turkey's Women Journalists Release March 8 Declaration

Turkey's Women Journalists Release March 8 Declaration

Kadın Gazeteciler Takipte (Women Journalists In Pursuit) Group made a public declaration today, condemning male violence and pledging the pursuit of masculine discourse in Turkey's media.

Court Bans March 8 Poster in Diyarbakır

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

Court Bans March 8 Poster in Diyarbakır

A Diyarbakır court banned an International Women's Day billboard poster on the ground that it violated Turkish Anti-Terror Act Article 10.

28 February 2013

Women Stake Their Claims on International Women's Day

Women Stake Their Claims on International Women's Day

Thousands of women took the streets of Istanbul on the International Women's Day meeting to call for the end of violence against women, for making their labour visible and to give an end to taking women into custody and arrest.

12 March 2012 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

International Women's Day Overshadowed by Violence

International Women's Day Overshadowed by Violence

According to a joint announcement of the Turkish Medical Association and the Turkish Psychiatry Association made on International Women's Day on 8 March, women murders in Turkey have increased by 400 percent during the past seven years.

Equality Report: Once More a Confession of Failure for Turkey

8 MARCH 100th INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

Equality Report: Once More a Confession of Failure for Turkey

The women's organization KA.DER issued the third "Report on the Representation of Gender Equality in Turkey". Turkey, "still resisting to gender equality on the 100th anniversary of the World Women's Day on 8 March", gained zero credits in the 2010 report.

9 March 2010 Burçin Belge

Women Protesters "Will Not Leave the Streets"

Around 500 women walked along the pedestrian precinct of Beyoğlu in the evening of 8 March, reclaiming the streets for women.

9 March 2009 Emine Özcan,Bawer Çakır

Thousands of Women Marked 8 March in Kadıköy

Thousands of Women Marked 8 March in Kadıköy

Women’s Day was celebrated by around six thousand women, many of them Kurdih. Workers and feminists were also part of the crowd.

9 March 2009 Emine Özcan

Photo Gallery: International Women’s Day in Kadiköy

12 March 2008 Emine Özcan

A Tale of Two Rallies on Women’s Day

A Tale of Two Rallies on Women’s Day

Two rallies in Istanbul on International Women’s Day had very different flavours. One was more concerned with protesting against the headscarf than calling for women’s rights.

10 March 2008 A. Nilüfer Zengin Kürkçü,Emine Özcan

“International Women’s Day? Never Heard of It”

Bianet asked women in Konya, central Anatolia, what 8 March means to them. For most, the day itself is meaningless, if they have even heard of it.

6 March 2008 Aysel Kılıç

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