Cashman, chair of the Gay and Lesbian Rights Working Group, has expressed his hope that the Lambdaistanbul case will end positively.

According to a report by the Initiative for Women’s Labour and Employment, women continue to be exploited in domestic and outside work.

A 26-year-old has been arrested for the murder of Melek, a member of the Pink Life LGBTT Association. This is only the latest in a spate of murders affecting the LGBTT community.

Özgökçe explains the difficulties encountered, missions accomplished and changed lives of women in this small, conservative eastern city.

Friends protest rising violence against LGBT individuals.

The 17th Gay Pride Week will take place in Turkey from 22 to 28 June. The hormone tomato anti-homophobia awards will be presented, and a Gay Pride March will take place in Istanbul.

Professor Tonak argues that the G20 deal is prepared assuming "there's enough production and consumption" to support the sanctions. He further criticizes G20 leaders to avoid tackling the causes of the crisis.

Women representation in local governments didn't improve in Sunday's elections. DTP has the most women mayors but they aim at equal representation, says their Women's Assembly chair Konca.

DTP's women mayor of dissident Tunceli, Edibe Şahin is determined to focus on improving the lives of the city's people, especially fellow women and the children.

An initiative by the Library of Women's Works in Istanbul gives way to a thesaurus on gender studies and related issues. "The thesaurus will enable a social accumulation of gender related knowledge."

According to Prof. Dr. Narlı, the decrease in votes for the AKP and the rise in support for other parties shows that voters are fed up with the AKP’s monopoly. She also criticised the lack of female representation in parties.

79 province capitals have male mayors. With the election of Çerçioğlu in Aydın and the election of a second woman, Şahin, in Tunceli, there are now two female province capital mayors. According to the provisional results, there are only 17 other female mayors at the district or town level.

In the Üzmez case, the judges have demanded a new report on child B.Ç. Öztürk from the Bursa Women’s Platform says that this would increase the trauma of the child. The fact that Üzmez is being tried without detention means that there is no deterrent for sexual abuse.

Reacting to Şimşek's logic that unemployment rose because women began looking for work, Eğitim-Sen's İşbert urges concrete steps to provide appropriate facilities to make women join the workforce.

Activists gather to launch a Women's Platform Against Sexual Violence. It will campaign for an end to sexual violence through promoting legislative changes as well as providing support.

The Women’s Platform against Sexual Violence aims to create deterrents against harrassment and rape, as well as putting an end to victimisation.

Speaking at a panel on “Local Elections and the Feminist Struggle”, KA-DER president Gülbahar said that PM Erdoğan had asked for every fourth candidate to be female, but that the party had ignored this.

58-year-old Şaziye Saygın has decided to stand as a muhtar, a neighbourhood official, after the current muhtar made her angry.

bianet is keeping a count of the stream of male violence that is reported in Turkey every day. Since 1 March, 12 women have been killed.