The Constitutional Court will discuss the application of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) for the statute that grants muftis authority to perform marriage to be revoked and its execution to be suspended.

The Şirin Tekeli Research Award 2017 organized by Sabancı University Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence with the aim to support and encourage gender based studies have been granted to 14 people.

Assaulted in the previous days in Samsun, trans woman İ.Y. spoke to bianet: “They walked up to me with clubs. I had to defend myself”.

Alperen Movement İstanbul Provincial Chair Mican, who has been tried due to his threats against Pride Week attendees, has based its defense on Ankara Governorship banning LGBTI events.

Men killed at least 15 women, three girls and seven men in November. 20% of the women were killed for attempting to break up or divorce, or rejecting the proposal to recommence the relationship.

Yusuf Gülsevgi from Antep Zeugmadi LGBTI has said, “The governorship has given green light to homophobic and transphobic people. Two LGBTI activists were subjected to violence in Antep in the wake of the ban”.

Yıldız Tar from KaosGL and Pınar Büyüktaş from Association for Struggle Against Sexual Violence will speak at the Gender Equality and Discrimination in Media panel to be moderated by bianet’s women and LGBTI news editor Tahaoğlu.

Serdar Ocaksönmez from the SPoD has stated the bans criminalize LGBTIs and make them feel under threat.

Barış Azar from the Young LGBTI Association has stressed that LGBTI activists are worried even in the cities where the LGBTI events haven’t been directly banned: “We work on increasing safety of the events”.

The LGBTI organizations Kaos GL and Pembe Hayat in Ankara have separately filed lawsuits against Ankara Governorship banning all LGBTI events indefinitely for the decision to be revoked and the execution to be suspended.

On the International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women, LGBTIs and women gathered at night to march in İstanbul despite all interventions and attempts to prevent the night march.

561 women and girls applied to the Legal Aid Bureau Against Sexual Harassment and Rape in Detention in the last 20 years. The bureau has shared the stories of women who were harassed or raped by police and soldiers.

Why couldn’t we hold the Mardin leg of Gender Based Journalism workshops run by the IPS Communication Foundation in cooperation with the Kaos GL? In the same days, Ankara Governorship banned all LGBTI events.

According to bianet’s Male Violence Monitoring Report, men killed 240 women (23% for seeking divorce/break up) and sexually abused 286 girls (4% with mental disabilities) in the first 10 months of 2017.

For the first time in Turkey, a woman has been appointed to the seat of Vice President in the Department of Religious Affairs. Prof. Dr. Huriye Martı, the new vice president takes office today.

Ankara Governorship has banned the events to be held by “LGBTI NGOs” indefinitely on the pretext of “public morality” and “social sensitivity and sensibilities”.

Following the first marriage performed by a mufti, a religious civil official, taking place in a mass marriage ceremony organized by Bismil municipality on November 15, the Directorate of Religious Affairs has stated that the muftis have not been authorized to perform civil marriage yet.

Trial of 24 activists, who were detained during 15th İstanbul LGBTI+ Pride Parade, has started. Next hearing is on February 27.

After the act authorizing muftis to perform marriage entered into effect, the first marriage performed by a mufti took place in a mass marriage ceremony organized by Bismil municipality.

German LGBTI Film Days has been banned by Ankara Governorship following some tweets shared with #MayLGBTFilmDaysBeCancelled and #BlackMarkOnOurFreedom hashtags.