content tagged with March 8

Happy Women's Day

We, as bianet, celebrate the International Women's Day of all women and LGBTI+ individuals, and wish for a world without violence and war!

8 March 2024

March 8 announcement from Metro İstanbul

Some subway stations will be closed.

8 March 2024

WE ARE ENRAGED, WE ARE IN MOURNING, WE ARE HERE!

Women and LGBTI+ met despite all barriers in the March 8 Feminist Night March

Thousands of women and LGBTI+ people were there to participate in the 21st March 8 Night March called by feminists in Taksim, İstanbul.

9 March 2023 Evrim Kepenek,Hikmet Adal

WOMEN'S DAY

District governor bans İstanbul Feminist Night March

The organizers of the event said they would defy the ban as they did in the past several years.

8 March 2023

'Illegal demonstration' charges against 40 women over Women's Day events

"Participating in the March 8 marches is not against the law, it is a fundamental right. Prevent male violence, not women defending their rights," the Women's Defense Network has said.

13 April 2022

IN THE WAKE OF MARCH 8

Lawyer Gülbahar: We are always on the alert for Civil Code

As part of the March 8 Women’s Day discussions of Bilgi University, Prof. Ferida Acar, lawyer Hülya Gülbahar from the EŞİK platform, journalist-writer Berrin Sönmez and Bilgi University faculty member Prof. Turgut Tarhanlı addressed the audience.

23 March 2022 Evrim Kepenek

Main opposition leader Kılıçdaroğlu promises to bring back İstanbul Convention

CHP Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu spoke at the weekly group meeting of his party on March 8 International Women’s Day and promised that the İstanbul Convention will be ratified again if they win the elections.

9 March 2022

Women in Diyarbakır remember imprisoned Kurdish politician Aysel Tuğluk on Women's Day

Several banners hung in the rally area included the one that read, "Aysel's memory is our memory," in reference to Aysel Tuğluk, an imprisoned Kurdish politician who has been diagnosed with dementia.

9 March 2022 Umut Ali Adalı

20TH FEMINIST NIGHT MARCH

'The feminist revolt will not end without establishing an equal and free world!'

Prevented from holding the night march on İstiklal Avenue, women read out their statement in Cihangir quarter.

8 March 2022 Evrim Kepenek

İSTANBUL

Women to hold March 8 Feminist Night March in the face of governor’s ban

The İstanbul Governor’s Office has banned the 20th Feminist Night March along the İstiklal Avenue in Beyoğlu district on March 8 International Women’s Day. Women have announced that they will still hold the march.

7 March 2022

MARCH 8 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

641 citizens: Equality of women and men is indispensable

Citizens have “called on everyone to take responsibility to build a democratic Turkey, which is based on a secular law where women can fully exercise their rights in line with the spirit of the Civil Code and which is egalitarian, liberal, fair and pluralistic.”

7 March 2022

Women meet in Ankara ahead of March 8: ‘We are here to call you to account’

Holding a demonstration in Anıtpark in the capital city of Turkey, women opened banners that read, “Women don’t want war”, “Biji tekoşina jinan” (Long live women’s struggle, in Kurdish) and “We won’t bow down to your violence”.

7 March 2022

March 8 demonstration in İstanbul: ‘Let your papa state pay the price for the crisis’

Ahead of International Women’s Day, a demonstration was held in Kadıköy district. Women opened banners that read, “We step up our struggle against poverty, violence and exploitation; we have the power to change.”

7 March 2022 Evrim Kepenek

CANAN GÜLLÜ

‘This year, we dedicate March 8 to hope for peace and women’s solidarity’

Federation of Women Associations of Turkey (TKDF) Chair Güllü has penned this year’s March 8 International Women’s Day Declaration of the Turkish Writers’ Union: “Women; to the streets on March 8 for our struggle for democracy and rights!”

3 March 2022

Feminists invited to organize trans+ cortege for ‘Great Women’s Meeting’

“We call on all anti-transphobia feminists to organize the trans+ cortege to increase our visibility and solidarize,” say queer feminists in a statement about the Great Women’s Meeting in İstanbul ahead of International Women’s Day.

2 March 2022

AHEAD OF MARCH 8

Turkey has one of the highest unemployment rates for women, finds union report

The Women’s Labor Report prepared by the DİSK Public Services Employees Union ahead of March 8 sheds light on women's work life amid their struggle against inequality.

2 March 2022

Trans women fined over March 8 demonstration: ‘I will join it again’

Yusuf A. from the November 20 Platform was a part of the Trans+ cortege joining the women’s demonstration in İstanbul on March 6. After the demonstration, police detained five Kurdish trans people, who were later fined as per the Public Health Law.

11 February 2022 Ege Öztokat

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH TO TURKEY

‘End probe of women over slogans at Feminist Night March’

Referring to the Human Rights Action Plan unveiled by Turkey, the HRW has called on the authorities to immediately put a stop to the criminal investigation opened into women’s rights activists for shouting slogans at the March 8 assembly in İstanbul.

15 March 2021

DETAINED OVER MARCH 8 SLOGANS

18 women released on probation

Detained and summoned to depose for joining the Feminist Night March in İstanbul on March 8, 18 women have been released on probation.

11 March 2021

SLOGANS 'INSULTED PRESIDENT'

Women detained over İstanbul Feminist Night March

Charged with "insulting the President" due to their slogans, 12 women have been taken into custody in İstanbul over the Feminist Night March held in the city on March 8 International Women’s Day. They have been referred to the prosecutor's office.

11 March 2021

19TH İSTANBUL FEMINIST NIGHT MARCH

Women+s: Male violence will go away, we will stay

"We know that as we empower one another, patriarchy, homophobia, transphobia, male violence will go away, we will stay!" says the organizers of the night march.

9 March 2021

WOMEN’S DAY

Ankara Feminist Night March: That patriarchy will fall!

Feminists in the capital city of Ankara met in Sakarya Avenue for March 8 International Women’s Day, chanting the slogans, “Jin, jiyan, azadi”, “Don’t hush, but shout: Trans people exist” and “The world will be shaken if women are free.”

9 March 2021

WOMEN’S DAY IN BALIKESİR

‘Everyday is March 8, everyday is struggle’

Women met in Balıkesir’s Ayvalık district for March 8 International Women’s Day. “We will never look down while the perpetrators of feminicides are free outside and the male state draws the boundaries of the ‘acceptable woman’,” said women.

9 March 2021 Gönül İlhan

REPORT ON WOMEN’S RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

Men killed 6 thousand 732 women in Turkey in 18 years

According to a report prepared by CHP MP Tanrıkulu, men earn 31 percent more than women in Turkey, which shows the gender inequality in income.

9 March 2021

Women's Day messages from İmamoğlu, Demirtaş

The İstanbul mayor and the former HDP co-chair have marked Women's Day on Twitter.

8 March 2021

WOMEN'S DAY

Feminist Night March: 'Feminist rebellion is everywhere!'

Hundreds of women have held the 19th night march marking Women's Day.

8 March 2021 Evrim Kepenek

WOMEN'S DAY

Roads to Taksim Square to be closed ahead of Feminist Night March

There is not a ban on the march and it will start at 6.30 p.m. "despite obstacles," feminist lawyer Eyüboğlu has said.

8 March 2021

AHEAD OF MARCH 8 WOMEN'S DAY

'We are not afraid, we resist,' say women in İstanbul

Upon the call of the İstanbul March 8 Women’s Platform, women from all around İstanbul met in Kadıköy ahead of International Women’s Day. LGBTI+ cortege and rainbow symbols were not allowed in the square for a long time.

6 March 2021 Evrim Kepenek

MARCH 8 WOMEN’S DAY

Women heal with women

Five psychologists and psychological counsellors have come together and established the “Women for Women Initiative” in Diyarbakır. Organizing three events ahead of the International Women’s Day, they aim to foster solidarity and mutual help.

5 March 2021 Bircan Değirmenci

WOMEN OF LITERATURE

Writer Pınar Kür: Powerful leaders will come out of women's movement

“One must be stupid to not see the gender inequality in our country. A woman writer who does not express it is not a literary figure,” says writer Pınar Kür.

5 March 2021 Evrim Kepenek

March 8 in Turkey: Women Take to Streets, Protest Male Violence, War

Women gathered on city squares to mark International Women's Day, chanting slogans against male violence, war and economic crisis.

9 March 2020

18TH FEMINIST NIGHT MARCH IN İSTANBUL

Women Don't Leave Taksim Despite Police Intervention

Gathering in the side streets to reach İstiklal Avenue for the Feminist Night March in İstanbul, women have been stopped by police barricades. While the police have attacked the women with tear gas, at least 32 people have been detained.

8 March 2020 Evrim Kepenek