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328 NGOs say 'We are together' against anti-LGBTI+ hate speech, police violence
LGBTI+s have been targeted by government officials during the protests that have been going on at the university for one-and-a-half months.
18 February 2021
Products of women’s cooperatives to be handed out to İstanbulites in need
The İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality has announced that various food products have been bought from women's cooperatives in Anatolian provinces and they will be handed out to people in need in İstanbul.
18 February 2021
‘43 percent of women subjected to physical violence’
The Health and Social Service Laborers’ Union (SES) conducted a survey with healthcare workers in 52 provinces across Turkey: 81 percent of women are subjected to psychological violence and 26 percent to sexual violence.
18 February 2021
Appeals against defendant’s release in Pınar Gültekin feminicide case
After the local court released one of the defendants in the trial over the killing of Pınar Gültekin, both the Muğla Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office and the family’s attorney have objected to the release of the defendant.
17 February 2021
2020 saw an increase in anti-LGBTI+ rhetoric, says ILGA-Europe Review
“A great number of hate speech incidents and campaigns took place again this year. In some instances, government or public figures blamed LGBT people or gay men for the pandemic, and for spreading other illnesses,” says the report about Turkey.
17 February 2021
Women protest ‘women’s universities’ in Ankara: Several detained
Police have intervened into the protest of university students against the planned establishment of “women’s universities” in Turkey. Several women have been reportedly detained in Kuğulupark in the capital city of Ankara.
16 February 2021
Pınar Gültekin feminicide case: One defendant released
At the third hearing of the trial over Pınar Gültekin’s killing in Muğla, Mertcan A. has been released while the court board has rejected the request for recusal raised by the Gültekin family’s attorney at the previous hearing.
16 February 2021
Filmmor decides to close down amid exposure of discrimination, violence allegations
After 13 womxn announced that they had been subjected to discrimination and violence while working for the Filmmor Women’s Cooperative, the cooperative has decided to close down “as it does not want to be a part of the hate climate.”
15 February 2021
Actor Efecan Şenolsun acquitted of sexually harassing colleague
"Male justice is served," attorney Eyüboğlu said after the court decision.
12 February 2021
ECtHR convicts Turkey in child abuse case
The ECtHR has pronounced its judgement in a child abuse case and concluded that the authorities failed to protect the child. She will be paid 28 thousand Euro in damages.
9 February 2021
Ayça Söylemez
Targeted by Erdoğan, Prof. Buğra says, ‘Turkey needs peace’
After she was targeted by ruling AKP Chair and President Erdoğan over Boğaziçi University protests, Emeritus Prof. Ayşe Buğra has said, “Provocation is a very harsh word. It shows not knowing the people in question, not knowing the students.”
9 February 2021
University LGBTI+ groups: We existed yesterday, we will exist tomorrow
Published in Turkish, Kurdish, Armenian and English, statement reads, “The decision which the Boğaziçi trustee rector unlawfully took to close the LGBTI+ Studies Club revealed the attitude of the government and so-called rector towards LGBTl+s.”
8 February 2021
Being a woman during pandemic: 96 percent subjected to violence
A recent report has shown that the COVID-19 pandemic has affected women’s general health condition negatively. While 79 percent of women used to describe their mental state as good before the pandemic, this rate has dropped to 30 percent.
8 February 2021
Boğaziçi protests: LGBTI+ groups from Iran, Greece express solidarity with LGBTI+s in Turkey
LGBTI+s have been targeted by the government during the protests that have been going on for a month.
4 February 2021
UNDP: Turkey ranks 68th in gender equality
Turkey has ranked 54th n the Human Development Indices shared with the public as part of the 2020 Human Development Report of the United Nations Development Programme.
3 February 2021
Men kill 22 women in January
Men inflicted violence on at least 60 women and killed one child in January. Abusing at least 12 children, including boys, men also harassed at least nine women. Men forced at least 28 women to sex work in January.
3 February 2021
Evrim Kepenek
Boğaziçi protests: LGBTI+ groups denounce hate speech by government officials
Senior government officials, including the president, have specifically targeted LGBTI+s during the protests that have been going on for a month now.
3 February 2021
Boğaziçi University’s LGBTI+ Studies Club closed by the appointed rector
Presidential Communications Director Fahrettin Altun has shared a decision with the signature of rector Melih Bulu and announced that Boğaziçi University’s LGBTI Studies Candidate Club has been closed, arguing that the protests are “about it all.”
2 February 2021
‘There is no crime, but a show for political purposes’
Levent Pişkin, the attorney of arrested Boğaziçi University students: “This investigation is legally null and void. I say ‘legally’ because there was no warrant for detention or seizure in the file. The work subject to the investigation is not there, either.”
1 February 2021
Ruken Tuncel
Two Boğaziçi University students arrested, two placed under house arrest
Taken into custody over a picture on display in an exhibition at the South Campus as part of the ongoing protests against the appointed rector, two students of Boğaziçi University have been arrested for “degrading or inciting the public to enmity or hatred.”
31 January 2021
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‘How possibly could justice function so poorly?’
According to the court verdict, mother Aynur Erzengin allegedly subjected her son to “alienation from his father.” The verdict has also indicated that what the child said was “against the natural flow of life.”
29 January 2021
Ayşegül Özbek
‘Woman applied for shelter, police said, “We don’t deal with it”’
The Purple Roof Women’s Shelter Foundation has released its “Outbreak and Violence Against Women Report” for the last two months of 2020.
27 January 2021
Male violence video 2020
Men killed at least 284 women and at least 26 children, including babies in 2020. Men also inflicted violence on 792 women.
27 January 2021
‘We made every effort, but could not find Gülistan’
University student Gülistan Doku has been missing for over a year now. The family of Doku met President and ruling AKP Chair Erdoğan in Elazığ.
26 January 2021
What is sexual violence? What is it not?
People are frequently subjected to sexual violence following physical violence. However, most of the time, they cannot declare it due to feelings of shame or guilt.
25 January 2021
Ebru Toprak
LGBTI+s in Turkey's media: More visibility, more discrimination
In 2020, only 39 percent of the articles published in the country were considered "rights-based" while 61 percent contained hate speech and anti-LGBTI discrimination, according to Kaos GL's annual report.
22 January 2021
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Sharing confidential information about Gülistan Doku, police officer dismissed
As part of an investigation launched by Tunceli Governor’s Office, the file of officer E. Yücel was sent to the Interior Ministry. The Ministry has dismissed the officer from profession for sharing information about Doku, who has been missing since last January.
21 January 2021
Men kill at least 284 women in 2020
Men killed at least 284 women and 26 children in 2020. Men raped 96 women, forced 818 women to sex work, harassed 147 women and abused 265 children. In 2020, men inflicted violence on and wounded at least 792 women.
21 January 2021
Evrim Kepenek
What would happen if Turkey was ruled by women?
SES Equality and Solidarity Association has designed a new webpage, asking women what they would do if they governed Turkey. Women also share their answers to this question under the hashtag #ÜlkemiBenYönetsem (#IfIRunMyCountry).
19 January 2021
Child abuser's family celebrates his release with music
Having sexually abused his niece in Mardin, Osman Ç. has been released from prison despite evidence. He was welcomed by his family in front of the prison in a musical ceremony where drums and wind instruments were played.
19 January 2021
Presidency includes women-only universities in 2021 program; women lash out on social media
During a visit to Japan in 2019, President Erdoğan had praised the idea of "women's universities" and ordered his aides to work for its implementation in Turkey.
18 January 2021
Marmara University’s Head of Psychology Department resigns
As reported by Evrim Kepenek from bianet, “arrested for online solicitation of a minor in the US, the man became a head of department in Turkey.” The Head of Psychology Department of Marmara University has resigned from office.
16 January 2021
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