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Erdoğan's 'at least three children' request now condition for housing support
The government will provide financial support to women who lost their husbands but only to welfare beneficiaries who have at least three children.
24 October 2022
'They think they can do anything to us': Trans women in İzmir face increasing law enforcement harassment
"They fined me for standing on the road. I reside here, this is my home. My supermarket is here, my stores are here. This is my space to live. How am I not allowed to walk on the street?" a trans woman says about the neighborhood guards.
20 October 2022
Erdoğan criticized over "PKK children' statement
Advising an MP who recently joined his party to have more children, the president said, "Having children is very important. Look, PKK has five, ten, fifteen."
20 October 2022
Gender discrimination in Türkiye 'concerning,' says European Commission report
Backsliding continues in women's rights and gender equality, and the country's anti-discrimination legislation also does not meet European standards, according to the EU Commission's 2022 report.
19 October 2022
Women’s position in Türkiye’s agriculture remains fragile despite booming exports
Agriculture is the country's largest informal economy and the largest employment sector for women, including refugees. Besides long working hours, 95 percent of the women in the sector work informally, while simultaneously being responsible for domestic tasks.
18 October 2022
Wouter Massink
'Women are giving care to 91 percent of the disabled'
The Association of Mothers and Volunteers of Disabled Children is campaigning for pension rights for women caring for the gravely disabled at home. Şenay Keçeci, head of the association, says "The problems predominantly concern women."
11 October 2022
Ayşegül Özbek
Exit from İstanbul Convention did not accelerate violence, according to ministry
Two years ago, an opposition MP had submitted a parliamentary question as to why the convention was not being implemented. The ministry gave a response over one and a half years after Türkiye pulled out of the convention.
11 October 2022
'Kılıçdaroğlu should also reconcile with the LGBTI+ community'
Erdoğan used the main opposition leader's move to "reconcile" with the pious to attack the LGBTI+ community, says an activist.
7 October 2022
Evrim Kepenek
Court to hear witnesses cited by LGBTI+ groups in 2008 homophobic murder case
Ahmet Yıldız was killed by his father after coming out as gay. At the 36th hearing, the court accepted for the first time the LGBTI+ groups' requests about witnesses.
6 October 2022
Tuğçe Yılmaz,Ece Deniz
Men killed 26 women in September
Men inflicted violence on at least 71 women, abused at least 12 girls and boys, harassed at least 16 women, and forced two women to do sex work.
6 October 2022
Evrim Kepenek
Erdoğan responds to CHP's 'headscarf bill'
Legislative proposal by the main opposition party submitted at the very beginning of the legislative year, for freedom of women public servants in their choice of clothing, including wearing a headscarf, sparked debate between the party and the president.
6 October 2022
Kurdish journalist Nagihan Akarsel killed in armed attack in Iraqi Kurdistan
Akarsel has been living in Sulaymaniyah for years as part of her studies on "jineology."
4 October 2022
Women from Iran burn headscarves in İstanbul in Mahsa Amini protests
"There have always been women who do not bow to the religious fascist regime of Iran, which tries to fit women into certain forms by ignoring their lives, rights and will through provisions designed according to Sharia," said the protesters in İstanbul. In Ankara, many protesters were detained.
3 October 2022
Evrim Kepenek
It's been 1,000 days since Gülistan Doku went missing
The university student went missing in early 2020. Her boyfriend, the sole suspect, was detained several times but the investigation did not progress.
30 September 2022
İstanbul governor refuses to permit investigation into police chief who beat LGBTI+ activists
The decision issued by Governor Ali Yerlikaya said police detained 373 people by exercising "gradual and proportional force" during the Pride Parade.
29 September 2022
Evrim Kepenek
Google Doodle marks Türkiye's first woman archeologist
The search engine’s homepage underlines archaeologic achievements of Jale İnan on her birthday.
27 September 2022
Demirtaş shaves off hair in support of women's protests in Iran
Selahattin Demirtaş and Selçuk Mızraklı, the dismissed mayor of Diyarbakır, have expressed support for the protests against Mahsa Amini's killing in Iran.
23 September 2022
Thousands gather at anti-LGBTI+ rally in İstanbul
"The Great Family Meeting" was held in the Saraçhane Park in the Fatih district.
19 September 2022
Tuğçe Yılmaz
Men killed 31 women in August
Men inflicted violence on at least 79 women, abused at least 12 girls and boys, harassed at least 13 women, and forced six women to do sex work.
7 September 2022
Evrim Kepenek
Trans prisoner Buse still in men's prison despite completing gender affirmation surgery
Buse filed a lawsuit to obtain a women's identity card. Her lawyer said the court should give a verdict as soon as possible.
9 August 2022
Evrim Kepenek
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Boğaziçi rector suspends activities of student film club over LGBTI+ movies
The rector previously canceled the screening of three LGBTI+ themed movies iat an open-air film screening event.
4 August 2022
Türkiye bans H&M's LGBTI+ themed commercial for 'disrupting morality'
The commercial negatively affected the mental, moral, psychological and social development characteristics of children and young people, according to the Ministry of Trade.
28 July 2022
LGBTI+s attacked, harassed in İstanbul's Kadıköy
When they wanted to read out a statement to denounce the attack, the LGBTI+s in Yeldeğirmeni were blocked by the police.
25 July 2022
Turkey's top administrative court refuses to annul Erdoğan's İstanbul Convention decree
Women's groups took to the streets to protest the judgment while opposition leaders vowed to bring back the convention.
20 July 2022
Men kill 32 women in June
Men inflicted violence on at least 89 women, abused at least 41 boys and girls, harassed at least 27 women, and forced 24 women to do sex work.
6 July 2022
Evrim Kepenek
New development in Gülistan Doku case
Images on a bridge, which are thought to belong to the missing woman, Gülistan Doku, have been sent to the National Criminal Bureau for editing. 21-year-old university student Doku went missing on January 5, 2020.
28 June 2022
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'You cannot touch Pınar Selek's acquittal'
The "We Are Still Witness" Platform has criticized the decision to overturn feminist author Pınar Selek's acquittal in the trial over the Egyptian Bazaar explosion in 1998.
24 June 2022
Akşener reacts to court's ruling on femicides
"This encourages men to kill women," said İYİ Party leader Meral Akşener regarding unjust provocation reduction granted to perpetrators of femicides in Turkey.
22 June 2022
Joint statement by LGBTI+ groups against ban on İstanbul Pride Week
"We refuse to be ashamed, forgotten, to abandon, lose, and step back. We do not consent to our history, present and future being taken away from us with hate speech, targeting, bans and threats," said the groups.
22 June 2022
Pınar Gültekin feminicide case: Defendant's sentence reduced due to 'unjust provocation'
The perpetrator who killed and burned Pınar Gültekin has been sentenced to 14 and a half years in prison. The court's decision triggered outrage among women.
21 June 2022
Evrim Kepenek
Council of State prosecutor once again demands annulment of İstanbul Convention decree
CHP and HDP politicians also attended the hearing. The verdict is expected to be announced in the coming days.
8 June 2022
Evrim Kepenek
Ban on Pride March at METU
METU rector has banned the Pride Parade to be held on June 10 with a warning saying "all kinds of security measures will be undertaken" if there will be students participating in the march.
7 June 2022
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