Married women can use maiden names in Turkey
11:27 03/10/2015Married women can use their own last names in Turkey, according to a ruling of the Supreme Court Assembly of Civil Chambers (YHGK). Also, divorced women can give their last names to their children.
Cizre People’s Assembly develops plan to rebuild town
10:52 03/10/2015The People’s Assembly in Cizre, Turkey has held an extraordinary meeting to announce their plans to rebuild the town, which was devastated by a Turkish state siege. The Assembly has called for ...
Teenage boy killed in Silvan
10:23 03/10/201516-year-old Vedat Akcanım was killed in Silvan where there is blockade by soldiers and Turkish police forces. Police have raided houses and arrested people. Turkish police forces arrested Zuhal ...
Gültan Kışanak facing 5 years in prison
09:40 03/10/2015Turkish courts sentenced Gültan Kışanak to imprisonment for 5 years. Gültan Kışanak, co-mayor of the largely Kurdish city of Diyarbakır, gave a speech at the demonstration of March 8; Turkish ...
Kurdish dance group to dramatize Alan Kurdî's life
12:48 02/10/2015Dancers in Batman, Turkey are preparing to dramatize the story of Alan Kurdî, the young child from Kobanê whose body washed up on shore after his family attempted to flee the war in Syria.
40 detained in Istanbul, woman unable to nurse
12:46 02/10/201540 have been detained in the city of Istanbul as part of the Turkish state's attack on Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) activists. Women journalists and nursing mothers are among the arrestees.
2 women assaulted on way to hospital
12:42 02/10/2015Soldiers assaulted two women prisoners in the Diyarbakır E-Type Closed Prison as they were taken to the hospital.
Pakistani women struggle to reclaim dhabas
11:56 02/10/2015Women have started an action to reclaim dhabas (tea houses) under the power of patriarchy in India and Pakistan. The women gave gotten support from around the world.
Kobanê women defend themselves, their city
10:59 02/10/2015Women in Kobanê, the symbol of resistance, have finished their self-defense training and are ready to stand watch over the city.
Police assault town of Şırnak
12:46 01/10/2015This morning, Turkish police blockaded a neighborhood in the largely Kurdish town of Şırnak, where several have been wounded as police open fire at random with live ammunition.
Dara Jiyanȇ harvests last produce of season
11:10 01/10/2015Women harvested the last produce this season that was planted by project of the Dara Jiyanȇ near the Kurdish town of Edremit.
Women’s handicrafts bazaar facing industrialization
10:36 01/10/2015The Ödemiş women’s handicrafts bazaar has been carrying on for a century. They are facing industrialization, but they continue resisting.
Kelly Renee Gissendaner executed in U.S.
13:07 30/09/2015After 70 years, a woman was executed in the state of Georgia in the U.S. 47-year-old Kelly Renee Gissendaner was accused of killing her husband.
Women prisoners continue resistance against strip searches
11:54 30/09/2015Women prisoners in Turkey’s Sincan Closed Women’s Prison are in their second month of resisting harassment through strip searches.
Kurdish school to open despite police attack
11:51 30/09/2015The Kurdish primary school raided by Turkish police recently in the town of Yüksekova will start the school year on October 5 in spite of the attacks.
State forces slay another child in Bismil
16:07 29/09/2015Turkish state security forces have killed a 12-year-old child named Berat Güzel as clashes continue in the largely Kurdish town of Bismil.
Turkish soldiers kill young woman
15:50 29/09/2015Turkish soldiers shot and killed a 23-year-old woman named Latife Tutuk in the largely Kurdish town of Silopi yesterday.
Journalists call for solidarity after police raid
15:36 29/09/2015After Turkish police raided the office of news agency Dicle News Agency and Kurdish newspaper Azadiya Welat yesterday, journalists have called for solidarity from all their colleagues.
Attack on Xerzan Guerrilla Cemetery
10:52 29/09/2015Soldiers and special police teams attacked Xerzan Guerilla’s Cemetery in the city of Bitlis. Heavy construction equipment was brought the area.
Italian women: ‘Kurdish women show us the way of resistance’
10:42 29/09/2015Barbara Ferusso, from the Torino Anti-sexist Assembly, talked about women’s resistance in the Susa Valley in Italy against a high speed train project. She said that, “We are hearing Kurdish ...