Women have come together at the 16th Feminist Night March with the slogan “Our Life, Our Revolt, Our Struggle: Feminism.” Women have said, “We come together not to call out to the system, but because we propose a way against this system.”

More than quarter of all posts and comments shared on Facebook about March 8 have been posted by people between the ages of 18 and 24. In the first week of March, 400 thousand social media posts have been made about March 8.

The March 8 school report published by KA.DER has shown that Turkey has again failed on gender equality. In her end of the year degree, the counsellor has stated, “The student is still ignoring women.”

Known with her contribution to feminist studies, Prof. Dr. Ferhunde Özbay will be memorialized with a conference titled “1st Ferhunde Özbay Memorial Conference: Family, Marriage & Women's Employment in Turkey” at Boğaziçi University.

More than 90 percent of 580 women workers were not members of a labor union and 75 percent of them were informally employed. According to the Association for Labor Health and Occupational Safety, neither the government, nor the labor unions have a policy reassuring women workers.

CHP İstanbul Provincial Chair Kaftancıoğlu has conveyed that women have been granted leave of absence at 14 CHP municipalities on March 8.

It is easy to put the whole blame on our upbringing or the people around us. Even though I have made the utmost effort to shape myself, like carving a stone or a piece of wood, there is still that uncarved wood very much alive somewhere inside me.

Women will rally at 16th Feminist Night March to be held with the slogan “Our Life, Rebellion, Struggle: FEMINIZM” in Beyoğlu, İstanbul tomorrow.

Turkey’s first Women’s Writing Festival is taking start. There will be 10 panels, six reading sessions, three round table, 3 forums, four workshops, two performances and one exhibition in the festival.

President Erdoğan has touched on March 8: “The number of people who betray mothers has started to increase and TV broadcasts are going over the line. I call on the media. Please suspend these broadcasts.

CHP MP Gamze Akkuş-İlgezdi has drawn attention to the violence inflicted by police upon the women who intended to organize a March 8 event around the same moment when the Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım stated in Muğla that ‘they condemn violence against women.’

The new address of IPS Communication Foundation’s journalism seminars and workshops biaOkul, and Infographic of Male Violence Monitoring Report 2017 has been introduced with a cocktail.