content tagged with mother's day

A Struggle of Motherhood from Turkey to US: Just to Keep My Daughter Alive

A Struggle of Motherhood from Turkey to US: Just to Keep My Daughter Alive

Demet Dulkara has emigrated to the US for her daughter’s treatment. Designing clothes for children living with an abdominal feeding tube, she sells the clothes online and takes them to children at hospitals in US. Dulkara is waiting for support from the public.

11 May 2020 Evrim Kepenek

‘I Have Raised Such a Child That He is Unprejudiced, Accepting and Supportive’

INTERVIEW BY EGE ÖZTOKAT

‘I Have Raised Such a Child That He is Unprejudiced, Accepting and Supportive’

We have spoken with activist, lesbian and mother Mine Yanat about Mother’s Day and the mothers falling outside of mainstream heteronormative definitions.

10 May 2020 Ege Öztokat

I was His ‘Mother’ Every Day, He was My ‘Day’ with His Every Smile

PENNED BY MISRA ÖZ

I was His ‘Mother’ Every Day, He was My ‘Day’ with His Every Smile

May 2018 was apparently the last Mother’s Day that we spent together. How could I know? He was a grown-up now. He had his favorite places. We held hands and went to Karaköy together. We had our pictures taken before the graffitis.

9 May 2020 Mısra Öz

Alternative Present Campaign for Mother's Day

Alternative Present Campaign for Mother's Day

WWF Turkey continues its "species adoption campaign," calling people to symbolically adopt one of the nine species facing extinction.

"We don't Celebrate Mother's Day"

SATURDAY MOTHERS / PEOPLE

"We don't Celebrate Mother's Day"

On their 434th gathering, the Saturday Mothers of Turkey commemorated Kazım and Halil Alpsoy who disappeared under police detention in 1994.

13 May 2013 Nilay Vardar