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Women’s solidarity from Switzerland to Cizre

15:19 22/09/2016 3

Kurdish women in the Bellinzona city of Switzerland are in solidarity with cities in Kurdistan with cooperative they founded.

Women in Germany protest the isolation and trustee appointments

15:14 22/09/2016 2

Women protested the isolation and trustee appointments by staging a sit-down protest under the leadership of the Wiesbaden Women's Initiative in Germany. Meanwhile, women in Frankfurt sent a letter ...

The 16th Congress of the Women’s International Democratic Federation held

14:07 22/09/2016 3

Women around the world gathered in Bogota for the 16th Congress of the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF). The women promised to continue their struggle.

Women display sexism at the academy: Recep Seymen

12:58 22/09/2016 2

The academic of Istanbul University Recep Seymen has been displayed for his sexist and homophobic discourses by the Women of Earth (Yeryüzü Kadınları). “They sent the academics, who want peace, ...

Rojava women prepare for winter against embargo

11:21 22/09/2016 5

Rojava women have begun the preparation for winter. As women from different community have made their preparation according to their culture, the women also take measures against embargo imposed due ...

‘Every avenue, street, home is a municipality in Nusaybin’

09:52 22/09/2016 16

People’s will has been ignored by appointing trustees to municipality of Nusaybin, where all occupation policies were destroyed. The occupation has been limited in building of municipality with the ...

New scenarios to displace the people in Şırnak

09:51 22/09/2016 4

The state’s scenarios to displace Şırnak people have continued. State forces have tried to force to displace the people by threatening them.

Women meet with EP Foreign Affairs Adviser

14:55 21/09/2016 1

Kurdish women met with the foreign affairs adviser of the president of the EP before the demonstration with the demand freedom for the PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan taking place in front of the EP ...

‘Doctors left my son for dead’

10:47 21/09/2016 2

The conditions of political prisoners haven’t changed for years despite the changed period in Kurdistan and Turkey. Maşallah Işık Arslan stated that her son lost his life due to the conditions ...

Co-mayors: We will raise women’s solidarity against trustees

10:01 21/09/2016 5

Elected women, who react to the trustee appointments, stated that they carried out works based on women, “We have made women’s will, which had been annihilated by masculine mindset, visible ...

Gula Hirça about to be forgotten

10:00 21/09/2016 6

In the past, women gathered in the high parts of the mountains to collect Gula Hırç (Rose of Bear) in order to make ornaments. The Gula Hırç, which presents its color entertainingly, has faced ...

Filiz: The world’s women should stand up for co-mayors

09:59 21/09/2016 3

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) MP Filiz Kerestecioğlu underlined that appointment of trustees to the municipalities held by the DBP was a blow against women’s achievements, “The world’s ...

Investigation opened into 4 teachers for taking photos on March 8

09:58 21/09/2016 1

Investigation have been opened into four teachers for taking their photos in front of pictures of three Kurdish women politicians, who were killed in Paris during March 8 activity organized by ...

International Conference on Gender and Post-Genocide in Yerevan

16:58 20/09/2016 8

International Conference on Gender and Post-Genocide was held in Armenia’s capital Yerevan. The genocide against Êzîdî people carried out by ISIS and genocidal war carried out against the Kurds ...

The trial of journalists postponed to December 15

13:46 20/09/2016 4

The first hearing of Ayşe Düzkan and Ragıb Duran, who were “visiting editor-in-chiefs” in campaign that launched as an act of solidarity with the closed daily Özgür GÜndem was held today. ...

Call on women to attend the protest in front of EP

12:58 20/09/2016 1

The Kurdish Women's Movement in Europe (TJK-E) activist Zelal Serhed made a call for participation in the protest to be hold in front of the European Parliament with demand of freedom for the PKK ...

Call from International Imralı Delegation to CPT

12:23 20/09/2016 1

Members of the International Imralı Delegation, including Nelson Mandela's lawyer Essa Mossa and writer Janet Biehl, made an urgent call on the CPT to visit the Imralı Prison.

‘Özgür Gündem Dungeon’ published

11:57 20/09/2016 8

The most significant support to Özgür Gündem daily comes from female prisoners. Female prisoners, among them JINHA editor Zehra Doğan, in Mardin E Type Prison have published a newspaper named, ...

Co-mayor of Qandil: Trustees will not break the people’s will

10:14 20/09/2016 4

Qandil Municipality co-mayor Emine Hemed Mihemed reacted to the trustee appointments to municipalities governed by the DBP and said the trustees would never break the Kurdish people’s will. Emine ...

Environment case of Cerattepe: Lawyers left the trial

16:32 19/09/2016 5

The Ministry of Environment and Urbanization gave the positive EIA report to the mining company (Cengiz Holding). A case was opened against this decision. The decision trial of Cerattepe case took ...