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The Antalya Bar has granted this year’s “Uğur Mumcu Special Award”, granted every year since 2007 in memory of the late journalist, to feminist lawyer Hülya Gülbahar.

Amid all these debates and polemics about women’s looks in Turkey, I look at my reflection in the mirror and ask myself: What do I represent, after all? What do I “mean” in this country where everything is so full of political and ideological symbolism?

KCK Diyarbakır trial observer Ann-Margarethe Livh from the Swedish Left Party said in interview on women rights that women in Turkey knew how to focus their struggle. "Even if most of these women are in jail because of the KCK trial, they will not give up".