Activists and MPs made a statement in front of the Parliament and addressed the current laws such as the recently passed act allowing religious leaders to perform legally valid religious marriage and other similar omnibus bills concerning women but include unfavorable regulations for women.

Ruling on the case of Özgecan Aslan’s murderer that was reversed in part by the Supreme Court of Appeal, the lower court has insisted on its earlier decision of penalty increase for “major sexual assault” and increased the prison sentence from 15 to 22 years and 6 months.

Yonca Özer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for having killed the man who was harassing and threatening herself and her family for four years and tried to rape in their last meeting. “If Yonca didn’t kill him, she would be killed”, her lawyer said.

Ustaoğlu’s latest movie titled “Clair Obscur” has been granted two awards at Batumi Arthouse Film Festival: Ustaoğlu received the award of the best director, and Ecem Uzun was awarded in the category of best actress.

On the ninth leg of the Gender Based Journalism Workshop, journalists from Edirne and neighbouring provinces and participants have discussed representation of women and LGBTIs on the media.

Setting off with the “On the pursuit of truth with women’s pens”, JinNews went online today.

Directorate of Religious Affairs has launched an investigation into a post of Mufti of Gölcük district Mehmet Yazıcı on Facebook.

Supreme Court of Appeal 1st Penal Chamber has reversed the life prison sentence for Nevin Yıldırım who is standing trial for having killed the man who raped her.

One of Turkey’s oldest LGBTI organizations, Kaos GL continues to transform life, to learn and teach.

CHP İstanbul MP Şafak Pavey has announced that she has resigned her seat as an MP due to health problems.

The appeal hearing in the trial of Nevin Yıldırım, who faces life imprisonment for killing her rapist, was held today. Feminists and women lawyers attended the hearing to support Yıldırım. Verdict will be passed on September 21.

E.K. who assaulted Melisa Sağlam for wearing shorts, standing trial in detention on remand,has been released again after being arrested due to growing public reaction against him being released twice earlier.

Men killed 13 women in August. 23% of the women were killed for seeking divorce/break up. In three femicide cases, the men tried to make the murder look like a suicide. 21 girls were exposed to sexual abuse. Two of them were refugees from Syria.

Abdullah Çakır, an aggressor who kicked Ayşegül Terzi on a bus for wearing shorts on the first day of Eid was sentenced to 3 years and 9 months in prison. Çakıroğlu said in his defence that “Turkey is an Islamic country”.

Academic and politician Prof. Dr. Türkan Akyol, who was the first woman member of the Parliament and the first woman to be elected president of a university in Turkey, has lost her life at the age of 89.

Osman Y., a police arrested for battering two women who asked him for help after being harassed in Izmir province has been released after two days.

According to a report by the Confederation of Turkish Initiative and Business World, as many as 1 million women quit their jobs for childcare, and around 112,000 women quit for elderly care from 2010 to 2015.

Boğaziçi University LGBTI+ Studies Club has said that the correspondences for the Hande Kader Fellowhsip occurred via official mail accounts, and added, “We’re sorry. We apologize to our donators”.

The Boğaziçi University LGBTI+ Studies Club had announced that they would grant a student Hande Kader Fellowship but the university presidency has said that the fellowship was not within their knowledge. The donations are being returned.

Being arrested over “illegal organization membership”, Keskesor activits Diren Coşkun has been sent to Diyarbakır Type D Close Prison. Coşkun has been staying in the solitary cell since she refused to stay with men.