The court saying D.K. who killed her husband inflicting violence on her for 15 years practiced her right to self-defense, has ruled acquittal of her.

Republican People’s Party Children Rights and Violations Research and Monitoring Commission members have reacted through a press statement in the parliament against the March 8 video of the Ministry of Family and Social Policies where it has been implicated that child marriage is a tradition.

State-run Anadolu News Agency has published photos of various March 8 celebrations from countries like Brazil, Ethiopia, Mexico and Madagascar but has not followed the feminist night marches in İstanbul and Ankara participated by thousands of women.

Thousands of women have marched on the 14th Feminist Night March. The fostered solidarity against increasing violence, oppression and glorifying maleness has been reflected during the march.

Seven commitments guaranteed to be undertaken by higher education institutions have been listed on Higher Education Institutions Approach on Gender Equality Document announced by Council of Higher Education President meeting women university chancellors.

Women will meet in front of French Cultural Center at 7 p.m. for March 8 Feminist March. Men are not allowed to join the march.

Council of Higher Education (YÖK) will meet women the “first time” in its history. However, it is not going to be that crowded since there are only 16 women university chancellors whereas the number is 163 for men.

Freizer from UN, Çorabatır from Asylum and Immigration Research Center, and Ghanem from Syrian Women for Peace Initiative have expressed that UN 1325, CEDAW and İstanbul Convention pave the way for accepting refugee policy sensitive to social gender.

İstanbul Feminist Collective declaring that their social media accounts have been hacked, has denied the allegation that Feminist Night March has been postponed to March 10. The march will start in front of French Cultural Center in Taksim at 7 p.m. on March 8.

Kadıköy Mayor Aykurt Nuhoğlu has replied to reactions against banners hung for International Women’s Day: “I don’t think it does any harm to them. May they not be interested in people’s expressing themselves”.

Women are assembling in İstanbul on March 5, in Ankara on March 7 and update information on Vikipedi from the perspective of social gender equality.

14th International Filmmor Women Film Festival on Wheels is opening purple curtain in seven cities during seven weeks. Slogan of this year’s festival to take place between March 12-April 30 is “Women’s Solidarity Keeps Women Alive”.

According to the bianet’s Male Violence Monitoring Report, 26% of the women have been murdered for wanting to divorce/break up, 8% for rejecting relationship offer. One out of every four murders have been committed on the street.

International peasant movement La Via Campesina consisting of over 200 million peasants, landless, women, young, local, immigrant, agriculture and food laborers gathering 183 organizations from 88 countries has sent message of support to people of Artvin.

Women have killed two men and injured four others by whom they had been exposed to violence.

CHP and HDP have brought discrimination against LGBTI members into parliament’s agenda, AKP’s Doğan said the commission has been established to discuss “business values of men and women” and she will not talk about “private sexes of different groups in bedroom”.

According to bianet male violence monitoring report, men killed at least 284 women in 2015. Murderers of 19 women are yet to be found; 26 women have been found suspiciously dead or claimed to have committed suicide.

Two women heading to the parliament to submit the petition #Barışa1000Kadın have not been allowed in the Parliament. It turned out that a “Parliamentary ban” had been imposed on the women who had staged a protest with white cheeseclothes in front of the Parliament’s General Assembly on January.

Videos of male violence stats in Turkey in 2015 have been voiced by Can Bonomo, Vedat Yıldırım, and Simon Johns.

bianet is publishing its male violence tally in the form of infographic in English, Turkish and Kurdish. Here are 2015's 1194 male violence cases...