Women's rights

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Local Elections: “Male-Dominated Parties Will Not Get Our Votes”

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

28 January 2009 Emine Özcan

Narratives of Domestic Violence Published

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

23 January 2009 Bawer Çakır

Woman Murdered Two Hours After Her Divorce

Özlem Arslan, a young woman from Ağrı in the eastern Turkey, was murdered two hours after her divorce. The reason for her divorce was her husband’s intention to have another wife in addition to her.

23 October 2008

Family Court Resists Supreme Court's Overrule

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.

24 June 2008 Sibel Hürtaş

Pregnant Wife Gets A Beating For Conceiving A Daughter

Pregnant Wife Gets A Beating For Conceiving A Daughter

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.

11 June 2008 Tolga Korkut

Strikes In Egypt: Female Workers

Factories in Egypt are now a battle front for the workers' rights movement that began in December 2006. Most of these events were led or initiated by women. They say “We don't want anything of the sort [feminist demands], we just want to have a good salary and a decent life for both of us, women and men.”

2 June 2008 Eman S. Morsı

Women Are Fed Up With Sexism In Advertisements

Women Are Fed Up With Sexism In Advertisements

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.

She Asked For Divorce, Shot Twelve Times Instead

She Asked For Divorce, Shot Twelve Times Instead

Ayşe Yılbaş and her mother appealed to the authorities many times for protection. Ironically, the accused husband managed to get protection for himself at the first court hearing. An intern at a medical school, her education was cut short by twelve bullets.

14 May 2008 A. Nilüfer Zengin Kürkçü

Feminists Angrily React Against Ruling AKP's Anti-feminist Rhetoric

Feminists Angrily React Against Ruling AKP's Anti-feminist Rhetoric

Islamist-feminist Hidayet Tuksal bursts against AKP spokesperson Firat's statement that "AKP women would not be slaves to the feminist ideology". Feminist activist Filiz Karakus is of the opinion that AKP leadership is worried of the feminist elements in their ranks.

6 May 2008 A. Nilüfer Zengin Kürkçü

AKP Spokesperson:" Women Will Not Be Slaves To The Feminist Ideology"

Dengir Mir Fırat of AKP claimed that the feminist thinking creates a medium of clash between man and woman. He addressed AKP women “AKP’s women” and said that they would not be slaves to the feminist ideology.

Women Oppose Categorisation into Covered/Uncovered

Under the slogan “We look out for each other,” over 1,000 women have signed a statement condemning the categorisation of women into those who are covered and those wo are not.

19 March 2008 Emine Özcan

Young Mediterranean Women

Women in Their 20s: Voices from the Mediterranean

Women journalists from Turkey, Algeria, Italy, the Lebanon, Spain, Egypt, France, Morocco and Palestine will consider the “Mediterranean Woman in her 20s” in 45 articles.

Young Mediterranean Women

Morocco: Between Survival and Self-assertion

2008: 4 years have passed since the reform of the Family Code. Casablanca, a population of 3.5 million (officially), economic capital and melting pot of ancient resident and rural populations who have come to seek employment, of middle classes … Amal, Leyla, Ikram, Ghanya, Amina and Kawtar live their twenties here. Their priority: to work.

13 March 2008 Kenza Sefrouı

Young Mediterranean Women

To Risk Love in Palestine

Despite the culture of disapproval and the fact that punishment can reach murder or reclusion, love is still worth the risk in Palestine.

13 March 2008 Neila Khalıl

Young Mediterranean Women

Women, Being 20 in Italy

They live different realities but almost all, with two exceptions, have place the word “love” on top of their scale of values. Yet they don’t dream of the white dress; “marriage” has a very low rating, whereas having children is everyone’s dream for the future.

Young Mediterranean Women

France: Young Women Come Out of the Dark

Forty years have passed since the sexual revolution started on May ’68. How do young women in their 20’s live love today? Seven among them, students or workers coming from all parts of France, have accepted to speak to us about their love life. Intimate secrets.

13 March 2008 Sarah Ben Ammar

Young Mediterranean Women

To be 20 in the Mediterranean: Young Women In Egypt

If there is one thing that unites young Egyptian women in their twenties today it is that they are generally more articulate in expressing themselves than their mothers' and grandmothers' generation

13 March 2008 Eman S. Morsı

Young Mediterranean Women

Lebanon : a “Secret” Emancipation

In Beirut, few young men haven’t emigrated yet, and the competition is getting tough among women. From enticing dresses to plastic surgery, everything goes to attract the attention of their potential targets.

13 March 2008 Sahar Al Attar

Young Mediterranean Women

Being Twenty in Spain

Neither Conchita, nor femme fatale… Only ten years have passed since the era of Franco and women’s conditions in Spain have witnessed quite a change.

13 March 2008 Perrine Delangle

Turkey Not Offering Shelters to Women

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

10 March 2008 A. Nilüfer Zengin Kürkçü

Iraqi Psychiatrist Ali: Iraq’s Future is Wounded

Iraqi Psychiatrist Ali: Iraq’s Future is Wounded

According to Ali, the whole of Iraqi society, but especially the children, bear psychological scars from witnessing violence and death every day: “Iraq needs psychological help, too.”

4 March 2008 Tolga Korkut

And Here are Bianet’s Questions for Prime Minister Erdogan…

And Here are Bianet’s Questions for Prime Minister Erdogan…

Three journalists and an academic asked Prime Minister Erdogan questions on live TV. Because we feel that their list was missing vital questions, here is our own list.

20 February 2008 Tolga Korkut

“Peace Can Only Happen with Women’s Liberation”

The Peace Parliament organised a symposium entitled “Democratisation and the Kurdish Issue during the New Constitutional Process.” Without women, peace is not achievable.

12 February 2008 A. Nilüfer Zengin Kürkçü

Government Supports Headscarf but Ignores Women’s Rights

Government Supports Headscarf but Ignores Women’s Rights

Although the AKP proposal to allow women wearing headscarves access to higher education has been couched in language about “freedoms” and “rights”, the government is actually not promoting women’s rights at all.

7 February 2008 Erhan Üstündağ

Heated Debate As Constitution Amended To Free Headscarves in The Universities

Heated Debate As Constitution Amended To Free Headscarves in The Universities

The ruling AKP's move to free headscarves in the universities, leads to strong reactions from the secularists. Some fear from the end of secular state, others argue limited freedom is hypocritical.

30 January 2008 Gökçe Gündüç

Constitutional Schemes on Dressing Alarm Women

Women NGOs protest against government schemes for new legislation on dressing to impose restrictions justified with "general morality".

25 January 2008 Erhan Üstündağ

A BIA Approach to Rights Reporting

4 New Books Released

A BIA Approach to Rights Reporting

BIA launches a four volume series on rights reporting. Introduced to media professionals in the weekend the series is the outcome of training workshops for journalists and rights activists and focuses on a rights approach to reporting.

22 January 2008 Gökçe Gündüç,Emine Özcan

"Purple Needle": Action Against Sexual Harassment

Friday evening 8 pm was the first appointment for women to meet in Mis Street in Beyoglu in order to start a "purple needle" campaign against sexual assault.

13 January 2008 Erhan Üstündağ

Husbands May Be Fired in Case of Domestic Violence

Municipality and union agree:

Husbands May Be Fired in Case of Domestic Violence

Gülcihan Simsek, the female district mayor from southeast Van province signs a collective agreement with the workers union: Male workers can be fired should they resort to domestic violence.

10 January 2008 Gökçe Gündüç

Women Protest Against Sexual Harrassment

On Friday, around 150 women marched in Taksim in order to protest against the sexual harrassment of women on New Year’s Eve and the fact that the police released the suspected perpetrators.

7 January 2008 Deniz T. Diren

“Only Women Can Get Women Into Constitution”

“Only Women Can Get Women Into Constitution”

When the Penal Code was revised, women managed to lobby for amendments in their favour. The debate around constitutional reforms shows that the government has not learnt any lessons, so women have to rally again.

6 December 2007 Erhan Üstündağ

Women's Quota a Must

Women's Quota a Must

Not only Ruanda, but 97 other countries also support a gender quota in political representation. KA-DER has called for the application of a gender quota as a means of overcoming the real inequalities which women face.

5 October 2007 Gökçe Gündüç

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