First women pilots of PKK ready to fly
10:57 07/05/2015Women pilots are ready to be the first pilots of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and to fight against Daesh gangs.
250-bed hospital planned for Kobanê
10:51 07/05/2015The Mesopotamia Society and Health Association (METSAD) has announced that it is working to bring supplies to the city of Kobanê for a 250-bed hospital.
Roma celebrate Hıdırellez holiday
10:11 07/05/2015Roma held picnics and celebrations across Turkey yesterday for the holiday of Hıdırellez, as celebrations continued in various cities, including Izmir and Antep.
Human rights activists: free Turkey's 2200 child prisoners
08:57 07/05/2015Human rights activists called for an end to rights violations against Turkey's 2200 child prisoners at a press conference in Ankara yesterday.
Sick political prisoner Aysel Doğan calls for freedom for all like her
08:52 07/05/2015After a delegation visited peace activist and advanced cancer patient Aysel Doğan, Aysel called from her hospital bed in Ankara yesterday for a campaign for all sick prisoners in Turkey's jails, ...
Police detain woman for victory sign at AKP rally
08:48 07/05/2015Police violently arrested a woman who made a victory sign at an AKP rally in the province of Ağrı yesterday. This comes less than a week after a woman was arrested for the same gesture at an AKP ...
HDP candidates take to streets and festivals
12:54 06/05/2015HDP women's candidates continued their elections campaign across Turkey over recent days, including attending Roma festivities for last night's festival of Kakava.
Rojava women organize communes across cantons
11:19 06/05/2015Women across the Efrîn and Cizîrê cantons of Rojava have been debating how to make the commune form active, as Rojava women's umbrella group Yekîtiya Star coordinates organizing meetings to ...
Campaign for fired Yandex workers
11:06 06/05/2015Workers and activists have started a social media campaign for hundreds of workers laid off by Russian search engine giant Yandex.
Musician found dead in her Istanbul home
11:03 06/05/2015Musician Değer Deniz has been found dead in her home in Istanbul's Beyoğlu district.
Women academics: HDP's economic policies safeguard women
10:30 06/05/2015Academics say the HDP's economic policies of promoting women's employment and right to organize, as laid out in their election platform, promise a real change for precarious women workers in Turkey.
Women's cooperatives in Turkey struggle to find a market
09:49 06/05/2015The biggest problem for women attempting to create independent economic resources for themselves in Turkey is not a lack of labor, say women's cooperative directors. It's a lack of a market.
Women activists lay Hasret to rest
08:49 06/05/2015Activists from the Congress of Free Women (KJA) escorted the body of child marriage and likely femicide victim Hasret Mete to her final resting place in her village near Erciş, in Van province.
Police stop musical march for woman parliamentary candidate
08:47 06/05/2015Police stopped women from holding a march to support a woman HDP parliamentary candidate in the Northern Kurdish city of Mardin yesterday.
Israeli soldiers in Gaza told 'if it moves, shoot'
12:49 05/05/2015Soldiers' testimony from the Israeli assault on Gaza over the summer of 2014 has revealed that soldiers were told to shoot everything that moves in Gaza.
People of Tutak trying to stop military operation
12:08 05/05/2015In the eastern province of Ağrı, the people of the town of Tutak have headed to the countryside hoping to put their bodies on the line to stop a Turkish military operation
Women take to London's streets against sexist austerity
12:00 05/05/2015400 women took the streets and council building of London yesterday in a march against austerity cuts to domestic violence services.
Local assemblies key to Kobanê reconstruction
10:13 05/05/2015Members of the Kobanê Reconstruction Committee say that the work has just begun in the reconstruction of the city. The committee has formed a range of local assemblies to organize its damage ...
Roma community prepares for Hıdırellez holiday
10:02 05/05/2015With the spring holiday of Hıdırellez coming tonight, Roma women in the city of Izmir, Turkey say they are looking forward to celebrations across the city.
Sulaymaniyah women fight for economic independence
09:59 05/05/2015For the four women who run the Karadağ Cafeteria in the Federal Kurdistan Region city of Sulaymaniyah, this is more than a job. It's a struggle for economic independence.