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Homophobic Leaflets Distributed in İzmir, Ankara

Homophobic Leaflets Distributed in İzmir, Ankara

Leaflets reading “Homosexuality is despicableness and can be turned away by convincement”; leaflets reading “homosexuality is perversion” were dropped in mail boxes in Ankara.

What the Hell Are You Looking At!

What the Hell Are You Looking At!

It is like a formula that a species has developed to rehabilitate and destroy itself, a sort of food poisoning: Manhood and violence as its “truest” son. Everything will start anew by learning how to vomit!

18 July 2018 Tan Morgül

Transgender Inmate Buse Pauses Hunger Strike on 38th Day

Transgender Inmate Buse Pauses Hunger Strike on 38th Day

Transgender woman inmate Buse has paused her hunger strike on its 38th day. Her attorney Eren Keskin has stated that Buse will continue her hunger strike if she is not moved to another prison and not referred to hospital for her gender transition surgery.

16 July 2018 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

Transgender Woman Murdered in Samsun

Transgender Woman Murdered in Samsun

A man has killed his 24-year-old transgender girlfriend Simge Sezer in Samsun. The man has claimed that he committed the murder “because his manhood was ridiculed.” In 2017, two transgender women were killed and 11 of them were subjected to attacks.

Letter Campaign for Trans Inmate Buse on Hunger Strike

Letter Campaign for Trans Inmate Buse on Hunger Strike

E-letter campaign has been launched for trans woman inmate Buse, who is kept in Tekirdağ Type F Closed Men’s Prison.

Man-to-Man

Man-to-Man

The impoliteness savored in a state of relief when hanging out man-to-man multiplies the artificiality of the politeness shown to women - it becomes the fuel of the violence and roughness that will explode when the necessity of politeness disappears.

11 July 2018 Tanıl Bora

Defendants Sentenced to Lifetime Imprisonment in Murder of Ugandan Sisters

Defendants Sentenced to Lifetime Imprisonment in Murder of Ugandan Sisters

Two defendants have been sentenced to lifetime imprisonment in trial of Ugandan Nantaba being murdered and her twin sister Babiry being subjected to sexual and physical violence.

Transgender Inmate Buse on Hunger Strike: ‘I Want to Break Free from Prison in My Body’

Transgender Inmate Buse on Hunger Strike: ‘I Want to Break Free from Prison in My Body’

Transgender inmate Buse, who has not been permitted to undergo gender transition surgery despite the related court ruling and medical report, has been on hunger strike. Her friends and attorney have made a call and said, “Give a voice to Buse.”

5 July 2018 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

Men Kill 23 Women in June

Men Kill 23 Women in June

Men have killed 23 women, two children and three men who intervened in incidents of violence in June 2018. Three of the women killed in June were refugees from Syria.

5 July 2018 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

State of Manhood: A Comfort that Will Void Confrontation When You Let Yourself Go

State of Manhood: A Comfort that Will Void Confrontation When You Let Yourself Go

The things that you think you have accumulated thus far can also become void very quickly. In other words, there is no such thing as “I have overcome it”. It is a reality that needs to be confronted everyday over and over again.

4 July 2018 Fatih Polat

Story of İstanbul LGBTİ+ Pride Parade with Photos

Story of İstanbul LGBTİ+ Pride Parade with Photos

Here is the prohibited İstanbul LGBTİ+ Pride Parade day from photojournalist Hüseyin Aldemir’s camera…

3 July 2018 Hüseyin Aldemir

Call for Demonstration in Front of Yves Rocher, Flormar for Flormar Workers

Call for Demonstration in Front of Yves Rocher, Flormar for Flormar Workers

Yoğurtçu Women’s Forum has made a call for silent protest in front of Yves Rocher and Flormar in Kadıköy in support of Flormar workers, who were fired for unionizing and are on 50th day of their resistance.

26th Pride Week Ends with Statements for Press

26th Pride Week Ends with Statements for Press

İstanbul LGBTI+ Pride Parade hasn’t been allowed. Activists have met at Mis Street and issued a statement for the press. After that, another statement was issued at Odakule. 11 people have been taken into custody.

2 July 2018 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

Presentation of bianet’s ‘Gender-Based Journalism Handbook’ Held

Presentation of bianet’s ‘Gender-Based Journalism Handbook’ Held

bianet introduced its “Gender-Based Journalism Handbook” with a press meeting organized at AtölyeBİA today.

29 June 2018 Hikmet Adal

ECtHR: Statement of ‘Women Cannot Be Security Guards’ is Discrimination

ECtHR: Statement of ‘Women Cannot Be Security Guards’ is Discrimination

The ECtHR has given its ruling in the case of Hülya Ebru Demirel, whose appointment as a security guard was cancelled because she is a woman. The Court has ruled that it is a violation of rights.

Trial of Those Detained During 2017 Pride Parade Adjourned to November

Trial of Those Detained During 2017 Pride Parade Adjourned to November

Trial of 24 people, who were detained during 15th İstanbul LGBTI+ Pride Parade planned to be organized as part of 25th İstanbul LGBTI+ Pride Week last year, will resume on November 8.

28 June 2018 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

SPoD LGBTI Office to Remain Closed For a While Due To Attacks, Threats

SPoD LGBTI Office to Remain Closed For a While Due To Attacks, Threats

SPoD LGBTI has announced that its office will remain closed for a while after its office was attacked and the police carried out a search in the office instead of intervening in the attackers.

Our Gender-Based Journalism Handbook Published

Our Gender-Based Journalism Handbook Published

Gender-Based Journalism Handbook has been published as part of the project run by bianet and Kaos GL in cooperation. Translated into Kurdish and English, the handbook has been prepared by bianet editors Çiçek Tahaoğlu and Elif Akgül.

27 June 2018 Haluk Kalafat

Confession and Confrontation May Also Be A Masculine Show of Force

Confession and Confrontation May Also Be A Masculine Show of Force

For instance, if you talk about the meaninglessness of statements such as “He is not that kind of man”, the first thing you see will be an extremely puzzled expression on their faces…

27 June 2018 Fırat Yücel

497 Men – 103 Women MPs in Parliament

497 Men – 103 Women MPs in Parliament

No woman MP has been elected in 33 cities but the rate of women MPs has increased to 17 percent at 27th Term from 14.7 percent at 26th Term. HDP has again become the party with the highest rate of women MPs.

25 June 2018 Çiçek Tahaoğlu,Hikmet Adal

26th İstanbul Pride Week Program Announced

26th İstanbul Pride Week Program Announced

Full program of 26th İstanbul LGBTI+ Pride Week to be held from June 25 to July 1 has been announced.

Men Kill 25 Women in May

Men Kill 25 Women in May

Men have killed 25 women and four women's fathers; one woman's husband and one woman's 15-year-old son.

21 June 2018 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

Tram of Lust

Tram of Lust

That blank look in his eyes gave way to the look that I had seen two years ago; in his eyes, there was no shame or any feeling resembling an acceptance of having been caught red handed.

20 June 2018 Turgut Yüksel

Growing Up As A Boarder, Bleacher Boy from Çukurova

Growing Up As A Boarder, Bleacher Boy from Çukurova

Just think about that “mob” that fills the bleachers today, always tending towards violence, in a mood to lynch someone when they come together, and unable to speak without using foul language. They are the very part of this culture of becoming man.

13 June 2018 Bağış Erten

Letter by HDP’s Imprisoned Yüksekdağ: Women Will Overcome Threshold of Oppression

Letter by HDP’s Imprisoned Yüksekdağ: Women Will Overcome Threshold of Oppression

In a letter she wrote in Kandıra Prison, HDP’s imprisoned former co-chair Figen Yüksekdağ has said, “It is the women who will overcome the threshold of oppression”.

6th İzmir Pride Parade: ‘We’ll Walk Up to Fear’

6th İzmir Pride Parade: ‘We’ll Walk Up to Fear’

LGBTIs from İzmir have said, “Even if we fall, we stand up and march. We march by holding each other’s hands, we march without ever leaving each other alone” at the Pride Parade.

Ministry of Culture Withdraws Support From Flying Broom Film Festival

Ministry of Culture Withdraws Support From Flying Broom Film Festival

The Ministry of Culture has withdrawn its financial support from the Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival on the ground that “it is not deemed appropriate.”

11 June 2018 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

Support by Feminists to Flormar Resistance

Support by Feminists to Flormar Resistance

Feminists have come together with 120 Flormar women workers, who were fired for joining union.

72-Year-Old Man Who Abused His Grandchild Acquitted

72-Year-Old Man Who Abused His Grandchild Acquitted

Mehmet Ali B. (72) has been acquitted in the third hearing of the trial in which he was tried for sexually abusing his 6-year-old grandchild.

8 June 2018 Zeynep Yüncüler

Election Board Announces Women-Men Rate of MP Candidates: 996 Women-3855 Men

Election Board Announces Women-Men Rate of MP Candidates: 996 Women-3855 Men

The Supreme Election Board has announced the distribution of MP candidates by gender for June 24 election. The parties who nominated the highest number of women MPs are HDP, İYİ Party, Homeland Party, CHP, AKP, MHP, Felicity Party and HÜDA-PAR respectively.

7 June 2018 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

The World of Thought and Masculinity

The World of Thought and Masculinity

As women become stronger, freer, more autonomous and self-confident, as they enter the labor market more, and compete with men more, and as they change a vast number of men and make “new men” out of them…

6 June 2018 Barış Ünlü

Women from Workers’ Union Stage Demonstration in Support of Flormar Workers

Women from Workers’ Union Stage Demonstration in Support of Flormar Workers

Women from the Confederation of Public Workers’ Unions have staged a silent demonstration with a banner reading “No foundation cream can cover misogyny” for Flormar workers, who were fired for being union member.

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