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Suspicious death of Duygu Delen: Arrest warrant against Mehmet K.
Released to house arrest, Mehmet K. has been sent to prison to be arrested in the trial over the death of Duygu Delen, who fell from the balcony of K.’s house.
23 June 2021
Police attack LGBTI+s' picnic: 1 person detained
The police have attacked the LGBTI+s having a picnic at Maçka Park in İstanbul as part of the Pride Week. One person has been detained. While the Şişli Sub-Governor's Office banned the picnic, rainbow flags were not allowed into the park.
22 June 2021
Evrim Kepenek,Tansu Pişkin
International Women's Solidarity Association grants honorary membership to Moroğlu
Nazan Moroğlu, the Coordinator of the Union of İstanbul Women’s Organizations (İKKB) and the Vice Chair of İstanbul Bar Association, has been granted the honorary membership of the International Women’s Solidarity Association (IWSA).
22 June 2021
İstanbul Convention rally: 'I was born free and I live freely'
Even if the convention is abolished, women and LGBTI+s are determined to enforce its articles.
21 June 2021
Evrim Kepenek
Mutlu Kaya’s silence: Don’t fear ever!
Having miraculously survived male violence, Mutlu Kaya was also in İstanbul’s Maltepe on June 19, when women from all around the country protested Turkey’s withdrawal from the İstanbul Convention.
21 June 2021
Evrim Kepenek
Suspicious death of Duygu Delen: Objection to defendant’s release
In the trial over the death of 17-year-old Duygu Delen, who fell from the balcony of defendant Mehmet K.’s house, the Gaziantep Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has appealed against K.’s release to house arrest.
18 June 2021
Transphobic discrimination: Göksu Başaran not given a house
Looking for a flat to rent, actress-producer Başaran called the owner of the house that she saw on a website. She was faced with his transphobic remarks. “LGBTI+phobic people are encouraged upon the withdrawal from İstanbul Convention,” she says.
17 June 2021
Buse Özsümer
New project by UN Women in Turkey
UN Women has announced that it is launching a 3-year project with financial support from the Government of Sweden. The project aims to advance women’s leadership and participation in political decision-making and the private sector in Turkey.
16 June 2021
'Brake the violence': Women's group train taxi drivers on violence against women
Hundreds of taxi drivers in five have so far been trained on what to do when they encounter a woman who has suffered violence.
16 June 2021
Didem Ernez
Medical chamber probes chief physician over racist, sexist posts
Amid the opposition MPs’ demands for dismissal of Dr. Sarıhasanoğlu over his racist and sexist social media posts targeting women in 2013 and 2014, the İstanbul Medical Chamber has launched an inquiry against the chief physician.
16 June 2021
HDP’s Dundar: 18 of 20 women’s deaths in Mardin were suspicious
HDP Mardin MP Pero Dundar has submitted a Parliamentary question regarding the suspicious deaths of women in the province. Asking four questions to Family Minister Yanık, Dundar has raised concerns about gender inequality.
15 June 2021
Police officer who battered a woman indicted for 'actual bodily harm'
Attorney Eren Keskin has made an application to the court, stating that the incident was not actual bodily harm but torture.
15 June 2021
Evrim Kepenek
Pride March at Boğaziçi University: 'Get used to it, we are not going anywhere'
At the Pride March held in Boğaziçi University, students carried the photographs from the “Pride” exhibition, which was banned by vice rector Fazıl Önder Sönmez. They marched by carrying the photos of Ateş Alpar.
15 June 2021
Women on duty in İstanbul as station masters
Following a training program, 13 women have started working as “Station Unit Masters”, in a first in the history of Metro İstanbul, the public rail transport operator of the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İMM).
14 June 2021
120 organizations to hold a rally: ‘We don’t give up on İstanbul Convention’
In protest against Turkey’s withdrawal from the İstanbul Convention by a Presidential decision, women’s organizations have made a call for the rally to be held in İstanbul’s Maltepe in İstanbul on June 19.
14 June 2021
Las Tesis case: 6 women acquitted
Put on trial for protesting male violence with Las Tesis dance, six women have been acquitted. Making a statement after the hearing, lawyer Tuba Torun has defined the ruling as “the fair result of an unfair trial”
10 June 2021
New project to support struggle for gender equality in Turkey
The European Union (EU) and United Nations (UN) Women have joined forces to support civil society in Turkey for advancing women’s rights. The project will be in action between April 2021-March 2024 and 4,5 million Euro funding will be provided.
10 June 2021
Struggle for İstanbul Convention: Women will be in Taksim on July 1
Speaking in front of the İstanbul office of the Ministry of Family and Social Services, “Implement the İstanbul Convention” Campaign Group made a call for the protest in Taksim on July 1, starting from which the convention will no longer be in effect in Turkey.
10 June 2021
Harasser is free, the journalist who reported the news will go to jail
Covering the sexual abuse of a 16-year-old girl in Bitlis, journalist Sinan Aygül’s prison sentence for “violating the confidentiality of the investigation” has been upheld. While he will be sent to jail, the assaulter is free despite a 5-year prison term.
9 June 2021
Hikmet Adal
Father arrested for 'abusing' his child
The Forensic Medicine Institution has issued a report documenting that the child was subjected to sexual abuse. The father has been arrested.
9 June 2021
Evrim Kepenek
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Transphobic discrimination at İstanbul's Taksim Hospital
A surgeon has refused to treat Pelin, saying that "I'm not a transvestite doctor."
7 June 2021
Detained ahead of the trial over İstanbul Convention protests, women released
Police intervened against the women who wanted to hold a press statement before the first hearing of the lawsuit filed against 33 women on the grounds that they joined the protests for İstanbul Convention.
7 June 2021
Sixty academics dismissed for harassment in seven years in Turkey
The head of the Council of Higher Education gave a briefing to a parliamentary investigation committee on violence against women.
4 June 2021
Actress facing prison term for ‘insulting’ a soldier charged with sexual assault
A lawsuit has been filed against actress Ezgi Mola because she “insulted” specialist sergeant Musa O., who is facing charges for sexually assaulting İpek Er and driving her to suicide. The trial is met with a growing support for Mola, especially on social media.
3 June 2021
Boğaziçi ‘rainbow case’ | ‘We will shine with our all colors’
Put on trial for holding rainbow flags representing the LGBTI+ community, 12 students of Boğaziçi University appeared before the judge. The court board has partly lifted the judicial control measures, ruling that international travel bans shall remain in effect.
3 June 2021
Dilek Şen
Men kill 18 women in May
Men killed at least 18 women, inflicted violence on at least 67 women, killed at least one child, abused at least 16 girls and boys, harassed at least 13 women and forced at least 55 women to sex work in May 2021.
3 June 2021
Evrim Kepenek
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Report: Turkey among top three countries in violence towards women journalists in May
The Coalition For Women In Journalism has released its monthly report on violence against women journalists.
1 June 2021
Hardly 7 dollars a day for working in 40-degree heat for 12 hours
As part of its campaign “No to Women’s Poverty”, the Women’s Assembly of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) met the women working in lentil fields in Turkey’s southeastern province of Urfa.
31 May 2021
Jailed politician Gültan Kışanak granted ‘Clara Zetkin Honorary Award’
“We will keep struggling together against the male dominant order with our women’s solidarity, inside and outside,” says the HDP Women’s Assembly, announcing that Germany’s Left Party has granted this year’s Clara Zetkin Honorary Award to Kışanak.
31 May 2021
Mr. Minister; 14 women were killed in unsolved murders in Turkey in 2020
Minister of Interior Süleyman Soylu said, “There was no unidentified murder of women in 2020.” Neither the numbers nor the names of some women constantly on the public agenda confirm what the Minister claimed.
31 May 2021
Evrim Kepenek
Why should menstrual cups become widespread?
It is possible for menstrual cups to become widespread only by breaking down the taboos and marginalization that contradict themselves in Turkey as well as in the world.
29 May 2021
Defne Ceren Ergen
‘Male violence’ protest against Soylu: ‘106 women killed in four months’
The HDP MPs have left the meeting of the Parliamentary Commission on Equality of Opportunity Between Women and Men, leaving behind placards with the names of 106 women who lost their lives in the first four months of this year.
28 May 2021
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