With particular focus on lifting the isolation on jailed Öcalan, the two day conference in Diyarbakır upholds his Democratic Nation paradigm and calls for establishing a democratic front against fascism in Turkey and urges for Kurdish national unity against colonialism.

In our eyes, women were valuable creatures who needed to be saved by the good men from the hands of bad men. We used to play the game of “saving the Princess”. Gökçen, the beautiful daughter of my uncle would either be the princess or "the daughter of the Chancellor” kidnapped for a substantial ransom…

In the wake of a news report published on bianet, the students of Kadriye Moroğlu Anatolian High School have launched a campaign on social media and boycotted their classes with the demand that the harasser teacher resign from his post.

The Pembe Hayat LGBTT association has announced that police officers have forced transgender sex workers to get in police cars in the capital city of Ankara and left the women in remote, desolate places of the city.

Why can’t this horrible environment get its act together? Why can’t the sports press turn into a field where women journalists can have a place? Why is the number of women, who work in the press tribunes or in the sports fields as photojournalists, on the decline?

The Feminist Pedagogy Conference organized by Women’s Museum İstanbul and Sabancı University Gender and Women’s Studies Excellence Center will be held on October 18-20 in İstanbul.

As if society, politics and, of course, state mentality do not otherize women enough, a meaningless anger against women is also being injected into men at home, at school, in the military and at every level of society.

Men killed at least 23 women and two girls in September. 22 percent of the women were killed for seeking divorce. 22 percent of the murders occurred in public places.

It is not easy to be done with coming to terms with manhood. Since the things that we think we have accumulated can disappear very fast, it is impossible to say, “I have overcome it”. It is a reality that needs to be confronted continually, over and over again.

It is seen that sexist language and patriarchic ideology’s borders are not abandoned even though on the surface it looks like the murders are condemned.

In the Kurdish-Turkish Gender-Based Journalism Mini-Dictionary, you can find the Kurdish and Turkish equivalents of gender-based journalism-oriented concepts.

On the other hand, male dominance and male violence are not absent; they are even on the rise; yes. Because men are nervous. There are women everywhere, who demand to have a say in decision making, know to say no and do not refrain from saying it.

An investigation has been launched against the students of METU due to a rainbow flag opened at the graduation ceremony. Students have been asked, “Flag is an element of crime, did you distribute it”, “Did you open the flag as a protest” and “Were there whistles”.

The 6th Fancy Women Bike Ride, which is organized on the occasion of World Car Free Day, has been participated by 15 thousand women in 60 cities.

In that case, fatherhood means making room for oneself by pushing women to motherhood. And this room, where the notion of power reigns freely, is an unbridled sphere which does not exclude violence.

The foundation told bed capacity in women’s shelters in Turkey falls short by 54 percent according to United Nations regulations.

… and so on and so forth… Some may know, that’s how things were back then. When the girl insisted, I pushed her, the friends accompanying me took them away. And that love had ended then and there.

Men killed 20 women; one girl and three men who attempted to prevent the murder or thought by the murderers to be boyfriends of the women. 15 percent of the women murdered were refugee or immigrant.

Having been kept in for almost two years in prison, politician Kışanak has interviewed with imprisoned women MPs and mayors, written a book on women’s struggle in political parties.

Because we know that in the spiral of violence “might makes right”. In those male herds, the weak one turns into a “painted bird”. Maybe one of them remembers that it can’t go on like that.