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.

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”.

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.

The Ministry of Culture has withdrawn its financial support from the Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival on the ground that “it is not deemed appropriate.”

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

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.

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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!”.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.