Erdal Doğan, the lawyer of detained writer and physician Ayşegül Tözeren, has announced that she will be referred to İstanbul Courthouse today. Her friends have called on everyone to meet in front of the courthouse for solidarity and support.

Buse's friends and lawyer Eren Keskin have announced the establishment of a solidarity network for prisoner Buse Aydın, who is being held at Metris prison and wants to have sex transition surgery.

Women have come together in Yoğurtçu Women’s Forum in Kadıköy, İstanbul and discussed migration, immigrant women and removal of refugees, giving them the message “We are glad that you are here, welcome to our country.”

Five women have been appointed to senior positions at İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality. Speaking to bianet about the recent appointments, CHP İstanbul Provincial Chair Canan Kaftancıoğlu has stated, “I regard it as a gain.”

A lawsuit has been filed against 19 students of METU for having joined the 9th METU LGBTI+ Pride Parade. They are charged with “attending unlawful assemblies and marches” and “not dispersing despite warning.”

Men killed at least 24 women in July. Raping at least 10 women, men also forced 59 women to sex work, sexually abused at least 19 children and harassed 34 women.

"I think it is so powerful to address issues pertaining to the way we move through the world and the space we take up as it is so intrinsic and important to our lives and daily experiences," says Laurel, who was awarded for her "anti-manspreading chair."

Her daughter was kidnapped in Congo and she was forced to flee to Turkey with her son and husband. Now, she is waiting for her application to stay in Turkey to be accepted.

CHP Hatay MP Şahin has submitted a Parliamentary question regarding the women subjected to male violence despite protection orders. Şahin has asked Minister of Interior Soylu, “What precautions are taken by your ministry to protect women?”

There are 589 MPs in the Parliament and only 102 of them are women. In the last local elections, there were 8.257 mayor candidates and only 652 of them were women, accounting for 7.89 percent of all candidates.

Starting in 2014, the identification of the individual with the male person, the boiling down of the social into the familial, and the Sunni-Muslimization of women's rights claims turned out to be decisive features in Turkey's sociopolitical space.

After the coup d'état attempt, the sanctification of Erdoğan's persona found its place in the claim to a new national liberation war, with a remarkable increase in the frequency and intensity of reference to enemies inside and outside the country.

The post-2013 phase of the AKP's rule hosted increasing hostility towards rights-based socio-political opposition. This stage can be defined by the pervasion of anti-feminist discourse into the sphere of women's rights.

A security guard from the Harmandalı Removal Center has spoken to bianet about what happened “inside”: 1,500 people live in a 750-person place, most of them sleep on the floor. The ones who do not want to be deported constantly commit suicide.

Prof. Dr. Simten Coşar has penned an article approaching the regime change in Turkey from a feminist perspective. Here is the first part of her article, which will be followed by three others in upcoming three days.

Women wake up at around 5 in the morning to go to work. When the clock hits 7 a.m., they set to work in the field. Having two 15-minute breaks all through the day, women are given an hour to have lunch.

The convention on violence against women has come under spotlight five years after coming into effect as pro-AKP circles launched a campaign against it after Erdoğan reportedly said that it can be "annulled."

Actress Deniz Türkali, journalist İrem Afşin and academic Prof. Dr. Feride Acar have spoken to bianet about the recent attack against the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence.

Şule Çet, a 22-year-old university student, died last year after suspiciously falling from the 20th floor of a plaza in the capital Ankara.

HDP Ankara MP Filiz Kerestecioğlu, main opposition CHP Vice Chair Gökçe Gökçen and İlknur Üstün from the Women’s Coalition Platform have spoken to bianet about the “women’s universities” planned to be founded in Turkey.