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bianet to Sustain Journalism Training at biaOkul

bianet to Sustain Journalism Training at biaOkul

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.

'6 Out of Every 10 Journalist Women Subjected to Discrimination in Business Life'

'6 Out of Every 10 Journalist Women Subjected to Discrimination in Business Life'

According to a survey by Journalists’ Association of Turkey and LGBTI Commission, 55% of the journalist women tell they don’t receive equal pay for equal work; 87% tell having a child negatively affects their career.

6 March 2018 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

Workshops on Male Violence Tally and LGBTI Oriented Media Literacy

Workshops on Male Violence Tally and LGBTI Oriented Media Literacy

Workshops on activism, data journalism and LGBTI media literacy have been held in the Women’s Rights and Gender Equality meeting organized by ‘Sivil Düşün’ EU Programme on the occasion of March 8.

6 March 2018 Tansu Pişkin

Women March in Bakırköy Against ‘State of Emergency, Sexism’

Women March in Bakırköy Against ‘State of Emergency, Sexism’

As March 8 approaches, the slogan for the rally organized at Bakırköy Liberty Square was, “We resist for our labor, identity and freedom against war, State of Emergency and sexism”.

Police Intervention in March 8 Demonstration in Ankara

Police Intervention in March 8 Demonstration in Ankara

Stating that Ankara Governorship doesn’t allow the demonstration due to State of Emergency, police intervened in the women who rallied in front of Çankaya Municipality. The 18 detained women were fined and then released.

Male Violence Infographic 2017

Male Violence Infographic 2017

Banners of male violence monitoring report whose media browsing was carried out by Begüm Baki and which was prepared by Çiçek Tahaoğlu, were designed by Cem Dinlenmiş.

1 March 2018 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

Men Kill At Least 290 Women and 22 Children in 2017

Men Kill At Least 290 Women and 22 Children in 2017

Men killed at least 290 women; 22 girls and 34 men who were near the women at the time of the incident; raped 101 women; harassed 247; sexually abused 376 girls; injured 417 women in 2017.

1 March 2018 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

Three States of Male Violence

Three States of Male Violence

The most important task here falls on the progressive, egalitarian men of conscience. Progressive, egalitarian men of conscience need to stand with women for gender equality.

28 February 2018 Murat Yetkin

Courts Approve Bans of LGBTI Events

Courts Approve Bans of LGBTI Events

In its decision of refusal, the courts have asserted that “the decision of banning will not cause unrecoverable consequence and it is not openly contravening law”.

22 February 2018

An Evening in the Country

An Evening in the Country

Actually, what thrilled me so was my sudden privilege of coming by a horrific and bloody story. I had laid claim to be the witness of an awful murder; he might not have been dead, but that did not matter so much at that moment.

21 February 2018 Tayfun Pirselimoğlu

16th International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival On Wheels Coming Soon

16th International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival On Wheels Coming Soon

The 16th annual International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival On Wheels sets off in Istanbul on March 10 and prepares to reach women in Trabzon, İzmir, Antalya, Bodrum, Mersin, Adana and Diyarbakır through May 10.

20 February 2018

NTV Apologizes to Actress Berrak Tüzünataç for Tweet

NTV Apologizes to Actress Berrak Tüzünataç for Tweet

NTV has changed their news item on Tüzünataç’s dress and apologized following the actress’s criticism of the TV channel’s language: “Who needs harassers when our media uses this tone?”

19 February 2018

Women to Take to the Street on February 14: Down with Unequal Love

Women to Take to the Street on February 14: Down with Unequal Love

Women will be at Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district with the slogan “Down with Unequal Love” on February 14 (Valentine’s Day).

14 February 2018

I am Afraid of Confrontation!

I am Afraid of Confrontation!

You need to understand it to be able to tell it, and to understand it you need to confront it. Now let’s take out our elementary school notebooks and write over and over again for pages and pages: “I’m afraid of confrontation!”

14 February 2018 Yekta Kopan

Galata Photography House to Offer Gender and Photography Workshop

Galata Photography House to Offer Gender and Photography Workshop

Galata Photography House will be offering a six-week workshop program titled “Gender and Photography” starting February 20.

13 February 2018

Transgender Inmate’s 'Death Fast' Brought to Parliamentary Agenda

Transgender Inmate’s 'Death Fast' Brought to Parliamentary Agenda

HDP MP Filiz Kerestecioğlu has addressed Parliament about trans woman inmate Diren Coşkun’s death fast in prison on its 16th day.

9 February 2018

Men Kill 13 Women, 2 Children in January

Men Kill 13 Women, 2 Children in January

Men killed at least 13 women, two children and two men who were next to the women at the moment of the murder in the first month of 2018.

8 February 2018 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

Yes It Hurts, Rocky

Yes It Hurts, Rocky

Finally smacking down his opponent in full throttle, Rocky addresses the crowd in his victory speech: “During this fight, I've seen a lot of changing, in the way you felt about me, and the way I felt about you. (...) if I can change, and you can change, everybody can change.”

7 February 2018 Hakan Bıçakcı

First Book About Women’s Museums in Turkey

First Book About Women’s Museums in Turkey

The book “Women’s Museums: Center of Social Memory and Place of Inclusion”, which presents experiences of İstanbul Women’s Museum on international women’s museums has been introduced with a cocktail.

2 February 2018 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

Kaos GL: Release Ali Erol Immediately

Kaos GL: Release Ali Erol Immediately

LGBTI activist Erol, who is one of the founders of Kaos GL, has been detained as well. Stressing the indefinite LGBTI ban in Ankara, Kaos GL said, “This is an intervention in both freedom of expression and LGBTI rights”.

2 February 2018 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

JinNews Censored for 6th Time

JinNews Censored for 6th Time

Information and Communication Technologies Authority has blocked access to women oriented news agency JinNews for the sixth time.

1 February 2018

Middle East

Middle East

“Mom, why do you behave like this mom?”, shouts her grown-up boy as if he is worried about the neighbors running to their windows or the passersby. “Who is beating you mom? Why are you doing this to me mom?” Then he packs a punch.

31 January 2018 Ümit Ünal

Women for Peace Initiative: What do We Want?

Women for Peace Initiative: What do We Want?

The Women for Peace Initiative has said, “Once again war for peace, tension for the sake of tranquillity, death in the name of life wander around our top”.

26 January 2018

Sur-Karşıyaka-Cebeci-Babıali*

Sur-Karşıyaka-Cebeci-Babıali*

The number of my women colleagues who took part in decision-making mechanisms is extremely low. Can there be a greater violence than this? Let me call on all men, join this campaign of “questioning”.

24 January 2018 Tuğrul Eryılmaz

7th Pink Life QueerFest to Start in İstanbul

7th Pink Life QueerFest to Start in İstanbul

7th Pink Life QueerFest will be organized in İstanbul on January 27-28.

23 January 2018

A Documentary to Form Crack in Glass Ceiling: Lasikatto

A Documentary to Form Crack in Glass Ceiling: Lasikatto

Director Soppela making a documentary about the “glass ceiling” that prevents women from advancing in business life all over the world says, “The higher the ladder or the more ambitious the woman is the thicker the glass ceiling is”.

18 January 2018 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

Woman

Woman

What should be done? Even though the first step toward solving the women’s problems is to raise awareness, at the end of the day this is a matter of being in power.

17 January 2018 Mehmet Eroğlu

Men Kill 31 Women in December

Men Kill 31 Women in December

Men have killed 31 women, five girls and two men who tried to prevent murders in December. Two women heavily wounded “survived by feigning death”.

12 January 2018 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

Hunger Strike Ends in Elazığ Prison

Hunger Strike Ends in Elazığ Prison

Women prisoners, who were on hunger strike in Elazığ Type T Prison, ended their hunger strike on the 63rd day as the prison ID implementation was lifted.

11 January 2018

Women in Van Denounce Pink Bus Campaign

Women in Van Denounce Pink Bus Campaign

Women in Van have denounced the “We Want Pink Bus for Women” campaign launched by men in Van.

11 January 2018

Trans People in Prisons Not Allowed for Gender Reassignment

Trans People in Prisons Not Allowed for Gender Reassignment

Rights and LGBTI+ organizations have held a press conference in İstanbul branch building concerning ill-treatment against trans women prisoners Buse and Diren kept in Tekirdağ Type F Prison.

10 January 2018 Tansu Pişkin

I Must Have Gone Crazy

I Must Have Gone Crazy

It has taken me a long time to learn to control myself, to understand that I have been sort of gender-trained to view certain things as my right, and to start questioning these. I cannot say that I have worked it all out either.

10 January 2018 Murat Çelikkan

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