A member of the Supreme Curt of Appeals 1st Penal Chamber, announced that he would require there to be a “family council decision” in a murder with a motive of custom. Women lawyers say there is no such requirement in the law.

Activist Zozan Özgökçe is harassed on the street. She complains in spite of every man’s insistence that she should simply forgive the harassers. She thinks the problem will never go away, on the contrary will get worse, if the women are not persistent in filing complaints.

Fatma Şahin, a deputy for the Justice and Development Party, says they are expecting that the bill to form commission about the equality between men and women will become a law in September.

Following the Democratic Society Party and the Republican People’s Party, the Justice and Development Party introduces a bill that will make “sexual harassment” a crime not requiring a complaint.

Women visitors are strip-searched at Tire Prison. Their external body opening, including their sexual organs, are inspected closely. Contemporary Jurists Association says this is illegal.

The Petty Officer who killed his wife Ayşe Yılbaş, an intern doctor, claims he was not stable mentally during the murder. The women’s organizations were not allowed to join the case on side of the victim.

Feminist and the women organizations are getting together at Galata Bridge in Istanbul on July 5 to protest the recent court verdict that sentenced a woman for acting without shame

Thirty women from various organizations in Greece, Turkey, Northern and Southern Cyprus gathered at the Bosphorus University in Istanbul for an education program to improve their ability for working towards peaceful solutions.

Six UN organs got together in a public announcement to emphasize how the violence against women can easily include a dimension of torture and they demanded more protection for women in the processes for the prevention of torture.

The Ankara 5th Family Court resists the Supreme Court’s decision to overrule its verdict in Fatma A.’s case, in which the family court had ruled that the wife was entitled to a share of the family assets.

The court rejects the application by women’s organizations to join the trial process because they did not experience any damage. The women say they will continue demanding. Their goal is to prevent the unjust provocation reduction.

The court will discuss the request by Purple Roof Women’s Shelter to join the court process on June 12. The women’s organizations say that they take a side in this trial.

The prosecutor releases the husband who gave a beating to his wife for not conceiving a son. Lawyer Moroğlu says that this is against the new Penal Code, but the authorities are usually reluctant to apply the new measures.

The women who take part in the MEDİZ activity to end sexism in advertisements say they are fed up with the insulting creativity. They say they are not in love with their sheets, nor dance with the brooms.

Turkey’s Education and Science Workers Union elects three women to the new administration, possibly a woman president, an important step in increasing the proportion of the women administrators in Turkish unions.

The court expert stated that there is no ground for the closing down of Lambdaistanbul. The prosecutor asked for additional time to read the expert report. The judge postponed the hearing until May 29.

According to the UNDP “Youth in Turkey” report, girls are still being deprived of schooling because of gender discrimination. The lack of education then affects their whole lives.

The “Purple Roof” Women’s Shelter Foundation has condemned the fact that Turkey is not making provisions for women’s shelters.

An Internet campaign of academics supporting the freedom to wear a headscarf at university has been signed by 2,252 university lecturers so far.

I am not scared of girls with headscarves. The bigots and sect members should be scared of their girls going to free universities.