JINHA

NEWS CENTER – JINHA, which has been shut down based on the KHK decree under the state of emergency, was launched without thinking “what men will say,” as its slogan declared. Now, it will continue without thinking “what men decree.”

Women have reacted to JINHA’s closure by declaring that JINHA cannot be silenced. To the women saying “women will resist and stand up for JINHA,” we reply: “long live women’s solidarity,” because our excitement derives from our belief in women.

Since it launched with the cry, “And we write… We write without thinking what men will say,” JINHA has been the voice of women, children, and everyone who is oppressed and silenced. The AKP government has now shut JINHA down with a KHK decree this evening. JINHA refuses to allow women-focused journalism to be silenced and will continue writing without caring what men decree, as we get our excitement from the belief we have in women.

The women who JINHA has spoken for have now shown their solidarity for JINHA as it refuses to bow down to the patriarchal state’s ruling. The women who we reached out to with our microphones made their remarks about JINHA this time. Some of the solidarity messages women shared on Twitter:

Filiz Kerestecioğlu: “JINHA is women’s voice. Our agency has the most skilled and the youngest women journalists, and it is the only one in the world! We will never be silent!”

Pervin Buldan: “JINHA will never be silent. Women will resist and stand up for JINHA. JINHA cannot be silenced.”

Feminizm Derneği: “We support JINHA, who have said in their statement that they will not be silent and will continue to write. JINHA is not alone.”

Istanbul Feminist Kolektif: “JINHA was us.”

Erktolia: “JINHA, the world’s first women’s news agency, has been shut down! JINHA cannot be silenced. Women’s voices cannot be silenced.”

Filmmor: “1929 Virginia Woolf, 2012 JINHA. For 100 years, we write without thinking ‘what men or states will say or do!’ If you think that it’s possible to ‘shut this down’ or stop it.”

Kadınların Kurtuluşu: “JINHA, writing without thinking what men will say, will continue to write the struggle of us women. We have existed, we exist, we will exist.”

Mor Çetele: “The new KHK has apparently ruled that, JINHA, one of women’s voices, be closed. You can’t stop women’s voices!”

Tuğba Özer: “JINHA is women’s voice. It is the voice of abused children and mothers.”

Feminist Gündem: “JINHA cannot be silenced because JINHA reflects the voice of the street, the voice of women.”

Havva Cuştan: “JINHA, voice of women, cannot be silenced. Journalism is not a crime.”

Benazir Coşkun: “JINHA always wrote without thinking what men would say. It will continue to write without thinking what the masculine state or the ‘one man’ say. #JINHA”

YşmNmn: “Stand up for JINHA, voice of women!”

Dorşin Zaman: “#JINHA is women’s voice. It is the voice of abused children and mothers.”

Gülşah Öztürk: “We stand with JINHA, the voice for women and of women!”

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