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...

The campaign launched for Lisa Çalan who has lost both her legs in the bomb attack on HDP rally, aims at meeting the costs of prosthesis and the treatment for two months.