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Bar Association’s LGBTI Film Screening Banned, Lawyers Watch Movie on Phone

Bar Association’s LGBTI Film Screening Banned, Lawyers Watch Movie on Phone

Ankara Governorship has banned Ankara Bar Association Human Rights Center’s LGBTI+ short film screening due to “social sensitivities”. Lawyers have protested the ban by watching the movies on their cell phones.

False Paradise

False Paradise

Every month, either a woman working at a honkytonk was killed or some woman jumped off the iron bridge. The small talk that the men made among themselves was always the same: “They threw the woman off the iron bridge, but my dear brother, she did wrong by those fellows at the next table.”

30 May 2018 Menderes Samancılar

İstanbul LGBTI+ Pride Week Begins on June 25

İstanbul LGBTI+ Pride Week Begins on June 25

26th İstanbul LGBTI+ Pride Week will be realized from June 25 to July 1, 2018. Pride Week volunteers are calling for solidarity with Indiegogo campaign.

LGBTI Ban in Ankara Heard in Administrative Court

LGBTI Ban in Ankara Heard in Administrative Court

First hearing of the lawsuit, which has been brought by Pink Life Association concerning the Ankara Governorship’s decision to ban all LGBTI events, was held yesterday.

Spiral of Violence

Spiral of Violence

It would do all men some good to watch documentaries about primates that become violent due to testosterone. Perhaps, we can then think that being a human should have a difference and say, “Evolution is a must!”.

23 May 2018 Mehmet Açar

Only 5 Percent of Women Nominated on 1st Place

Only 5 Percent of Women Nominated on 1st Place

931 of 4,200 candidates, marking 22 percent, of the seven parties to enter the election are women. Women have been nominated on first place only in 49 cities.

22 May 2018 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

LGBTI Activist Arat Tells Violence She was Subjected to

LGBTI Activist Arat Tells Violence She was Subjected to

LGBTI activist Kıvılcam Arat has been assaulted in her garden with shotgun by her neighbor living in the building across. The assailant has been tried without arrest.

18 May 2018 Tutku Sönmez

Happy May 17, Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Transphobia

Happy May 17, Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Transphobia

Today is May 17, Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Transphobia. Kaos GL has placed an ad on two newspapers, reading “Hope to see equal and liberated days”. LGBTIs will meet with the title “Alliances will meet for solidarity” tonight in İstanbul.

Find Attached My Defense!

Find Attached My Defense!

Michelle became the first transwoman TV reporter in Turkey. Most television viewers probably met her for the first time that day when she was subjected to bodyguard violence as she attempted to ask a question to Sümeyye Erdoğan, the daughter of the then-prime minister Erdoğan.

16 May 2018 İrfan Değirmenci

bianet’s ‘Gender Based Journalism Library’ Goes Online

bianet’s ‘Gender Based Journalism Library’ Goes Online

You can access to related national and international sources, reports, studies, analyzes, news articles and interviews, and bianet’s Gender and Development Glossary at bianet’s Gender Based Journalism Library.

Gender Based Journalism: Feministiskt Perspektiv, Kaos GL, bianet

Gender Based Journalism: Feministiskt Perspektiv, Kaos GL, bianet

Anna-Klara Bratt from feministperspectiv.se from Sweden and Prof. Dr. Alankuş have attended the final conference of “Gender Based Journalism” project as speaker. The session has been moderated by Yıldız Tar from Kaos GL.

15 May 2018 Haluk Kalafat,Elif Ünal

Students Say ‘Ban the Bans’ at 8th METU Pride Parade

Students Say ‘Ban the Bans’ at 8th METU Pride Parade

Hundreds of students have come together at the 8th METU LGBTI+ Pride Parade with the slogan, “Ban all the bans.”

Shopping Mall for Conservative Women Opened in İstanbul

Shopping Mall for Conservative Women Opened in İstanbul

A shopping mall, which is promoted as “the first conservative and women-oriented shopping mall of the world,” has been opened in the district of Zeytinburnu in İstanbul.

Men are ‘Etc.’

Men are ‘Etc.’

For some reason it was always a woman who was desired. Then again groups of men would beat each other up in front of schools. Because someone looked at his “cause”, and the other talked with his “cause”, etc.

9 May 2018 Ali Kemal Çınar

Feminist Forum’18: Consequence of Sexuality

Feminist Forum’18: Consequence of Sexuality

Feminist Forum’18 will discuss “consequence of sexuality” from May 11 to May 13.

Cycling Women to Attend Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival

Cycling Women to Attend Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival

At the opening night of the 21st Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival, the Cycling Women platform will pedal in the name of hope and women solidarity.

Men Kill 20 Women in April

Men Kill 20 Women in April

Men have killed 20 women, two children and five men in April. 40 percent of the women were killed for attempting to divorce/break up or rejecting their proposal to commence/recommence a romantic relationship.

4 May 2018 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

It's Really not a Coincidence, Men Kill Women

It's Really not a Coincidence, Men Kill Women

What is my responsibility in a social network where all sorts of violence and incidents of harassment against women are considered normal? How significant is it that I am not a direct subject of this issue?

2 May 2018 Sami Evren

The Mind of the State is Set Against Women

The Mind of the State is Set Against Women

According to the narrative of all three holy books, “women, who are prone to sin, are to blame for the miserable lives that we lead”. Even this narrative in itself can give an idea about the role played by religion in violence against women.

25 April 2018 Pakrat Estukyan

The Curse of Being a Man…

The Curse of Being a Man…

In fact, violence does nothing other than strengthening the feeling of impotence and the negative self-image. As a result, the fragility of manhood increases, its artificiality becomes all the more manifest and the feeling of insecurity becomes stronger and stronger.

18 April 2018 Alper Hasanoğlu

Bans of LGBTI Events Brought to Constitutional Court

Bans of LGBTI Events Brought to Constitutional Court

The LGBTI association Kaos GL has brought Ankara Governorship’s decision to indefinitely ban the LGBTI events to the Constitutional Court.

Women’s Library Celebrates Its 28th Anniversary

Women’s Library Celebrates Its 28th Anniversary

Women’s Library and Information Center Foundation has celebrated its 28th anniversary with a festival where Neveser Kökdeş Songs concert and Etnik 34 Flamenco Dance Group performance took place.

Woman Who Killed Her Rapist Father-in-Law Acquitted

Woman Who Killed Her Rapist Father-in-Law Acquitted

Anatolia 4th Heavy Penal Court has ruled acquittal of E.Y. (35), who killed her father-in-law who raped her.

‘We’ Weren't There But ‘We’ Were More

‘We’ Weren't There But ‘We’ Were More

We all concur that the words which best describe the pleasure felt when a goal is scored belong to Sócrates: “No, no! That was not a goal! That was an unending orgasm! Unforgettable.”

11 April 2018 Volkan Ağır

Men Kill 14 Women in March

Men Kill 14 Women in March

Trans women constituted 7 percent and refugees/immigrants constituted 11 percent of 83 women who were subjected to violence by men. At least 39 girls were sexually harassed.

6 April 2018 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

My Name is Hatun

My Name is Hatun

The wind outside calls her; like a sweet whisper, like a compassionate touch. Hatun walks to the wind calling her. She comes across her mother at the door of the house. The poor woman utters a scream and falls to the ground.

4 April 2018 Ahmet Ümit

Filmmor Women’s Film Festival Heading to Trabzon

Filmmor Women’s Film Festival Heading to Trabzon

After İstanbul, Antalya and İzmir, the 16th International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival will be in Trabzon on April 6-7-8.

Parliamentary Inquiry by CHP: Did You Prevent Women Taking to the Theatre Stage?

Parliamentary Inquiry by CHP: Did You Prevent Women Taking to the Theatre Stage?

CHP MP Yüceer has submitted a parliamentary inquiry regarding the allegation that Parliament Speaker İsmail Kahraman prevented women theater players from taking to the stage at parliament.

Academic Threatens Ex-Girlfriend with ‘Ending Her Education Life’

Academic Threatens Ex-Girlfriend with ‘Ending Her Education Life’

Working as academic in Van, Ö.O. has threatened his former student with messages like “I’ll end your education life” after she broke up with him. The fine imposed has been suspended.

29 March 2018 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

Situation of Women Reporters is Not Any Different Than the News They Report

Situation of Women Reporters is Not Any Different Than the News They Report

According to the survey TGS carried out with women reporters, six out of every 10 women journalists in Turkey say that they have been subjected to gender discrimination, psychological violence and mobbing by their administrators and colleagues.

28 March 2018 Gökhan Durmuş

Court Overlooks Sexual Assault, Sentences Yıldırım to Lifetime Imprisonment

Court Overlooks Sexual Assault, Sentences Yıldırım to Lifetime Imprisonment

Nevin Yıldırım, who killed the man raping her, has been sentenced to lifetime imprisonment in the case in which she has been retried. No reduction in penalty has been granted.

22 March 2018 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

Filmmor Women’s Film Festival Heading to Antalya

Filmmor Women’s Film Festival Heading to Antalya

16th International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival will be in Antalya on March 23.

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