10 years after the first motion was introduced, a gender equality commission will be voted in parliament. CHP MP Erbatur, tells the story of the struggle behind this achievement.

Following their denouncement of militarism in their respective columns, journalists Mağden and Temelkuran became targets for the Tercüman newspaper. An editor of the paper is now on trial for insulting them.

Prof. Dr. Türkel Minibaş, economics lecturer at Istanbul University and human rights activist, died on Friday, 6 February.

75 communication students from across Turkey participate in Interior Ministry backed a workshop. The workshop aims at building awareness for women's human rights in reporting on acts of violence against women.

The Izmir fire brigade has been joined by its first female recruits. They feel passionate about their duty to save lives and hope to make positive contributions to the unit.

Ka-Der Ankara branch director Ustun demands gender-based local services following elections on March 29. Women's involvement in decision-making is imperative as well as gender sensitive statistics and governance.

Ahead of Turkish local elections on 29 March this year, the Amargi Women’s Cooperative organised a panel on women in local politics.

The Constitutional Committee has accepted the formation of a parliamentary gender equality committee.

The Socialist Feminist Collective has launched a quarterly publication. The first issue contains articles on local elections, urban transformation, the economic crisis, male violence, female labour, motherhood, homophobia and modern art.

The Association of Women Workers says women should refuse to vote for parties with a few token woman candidates.

An MP of the CHP party has asked Prime Minister Erdoğan to state whether anything is being done about the increase in violence towards women. She has further demanded information about the training of public sector workers.

The Women’s Shelter “Purple Roof” has published a book based on interviews with fifteen women seeking refuge with the organisation.

Bursa Women’s Platform held a press release for the five women textile workers who were killed in the fire at the factory owned by the Özer Company on December 29, 2005. They protested that the factory was only fined 90 euro.

The trial of Ayşe Yılbaş who was murdered by her angry husband Hüseyin Güneş Özmen was postponed again because of Medical Examiner’s inability to send the medical report needed by the trial.

Italian artist Pippa Bacca’s murder trial is postponed to January 20 to wait for the needed documents. The women’s organizations are still denied to take part in the trial on the grounds that they were not similarly injured by the crime committed against Bacca.

Prime Minister's description of women’s employment quote as harmful to women gets strong reaction from the women’s organization KA-DER as an attempt to ignore the historical discrimination against women.

Virginity tests are back in the agenda. A dorm principle asked parents of a student to take their daughter from the dorm since she was not a virgin. An inspection is launched in another dorm regarding the sexual activities of the students.

The Legal Aid Bureau Against Sexual Harassment And Rape In Detention has announced its yearly data. In eleven years 294 women and in the last year 35 women have applied to the bureau.

After dispersing their panel by force, the police did not let the women march on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, either. The women protested the intervention in front of the police barricades.

The Democratic Women’s Movement held a press release to announce the campaign they would launch for the November 25 International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Female students of Uludağ University held a similar press release to point out to the same sort of violence in the universities.