Women's backs are turned: campaign against Erdoğan gathers speed
08:41 03/06/2015When Turkish President RecepTayyipErdoğan used anti-woman language to insult a group of women protesting his illegal election campaigning in the province of Iğdır, his sexist language sparked a ...
Sick prisoner FatmaTokmak waiting for emergency surgery
13:36 02/06/2015Kurdish prisoner FatmaTokmak, currently held in an Istanbul jail despite the fact that her heart valves are failing, is currently waiting for emergency heart surgery.
JINHA reporters: they attack us because we expose them
12:08 02/06/2015With a recent increase in threats against reporters for JINHA, Turkey and Kurdistan's only all-women and women-oriented news agency, JINHA reporters say those threatening them are doing so because ...
Seran Anatoliya:world-traveled, biochemist woman guerrilla commander
11:48 02/06/2015YPJ guerrilla commander Seran Altunkılınç (Seran Anatoliya) lost her life one week agofighting for the struggle of the liberation of Kurdish women, a struggle she discovered at a young age and for ...
Women come out against Turkey's 'religious marriage' law
10:59 02/06/2015Women's groups across Turkey have come out strongly against the new change to Turkish law that permits "religious marriages" without a civil marriage. Women speaking to JINHA say the decision opens ...
Kurdish girls break social norms to express their politics in song
10:05 02/06/2015Teenage girls in the Northern Kurdish town of Silopi may not be able to vote, but they organized a concert to call on adults to vote for the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey's upcoming ...
Rojava women organize consciousness-raising seminar
09:42 02/06/2015Women participating in a consciousness-raising seminar series in the Rojava city of Rimêlan ended their educational program yesterday with the promise to bring what they learned into their work and ...
Nestora Salgado finally transferred out of high-security prison
13:25 01/06/2015Indigenous woman self-defense leader Nestora Salgado has finally been transferred out of a high-security prison after a 25-day hunger strike.
38 new women's communes in Serêkaniyê
12:56 01/06/2015Women's organizations in the Rojava city of Serêkaniyê have formed 38 women's communes over the last few months, according to representatives from women's movement umbrella group Yekîtiya Star.
Health workers on strike after doctor killed
12:37 01/06/2015After armed attackers killed a doctor on the job, health workers across Turkey have gone on strike calling for workplace safety.
Turkish court claims 'lack of evidence' in child molestation case
11:56 01/06/2015After a 16-year-old child in Diyarbakır province complained about long term sexual abuse from her father and two older brothers, the court decided not to arrest the three men, claiming a lack of ...
HDP candidates ready to found Women's Ministry in Turkey
09:58 01/06/2015Candidates with the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) say that their first goal if they enter Turkey's Parliament after the election will be to found a Women's Ministry.
Berkin Elvan's mother Gülsüm speaks in Taksim
09:32 01/06/2015On the second anniversary of the Gezi Park resistance, thousands gathered yesterday at Istiklal Street in Istanbul's Taksim district to commemorate the resistance. Gülsüm Elvan, who lost her ...
Legendary Kurdish teacher loses her life
09:21 01/06/2015When the short-lived Kurdish state the Mahabad Republic was formed in 1946, one of its first leading lights was Misri Xusrewi, who lost her life on Saturday at the age of 86.
Women's group denounces marriage law change in Turkey
09:19 01/06/2015After Turkey's ruling AKP pushed for a law that facilitates marriage by only an imam, Kurdish women's group Congress of Free Women (KJA) denounced the decision as an attack on women's power to make ...
HDP sets sights on elections threshold at huge rallies
08:45 01/06/2015The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP)'s huge Istanbul rally in Kazlıçeşme Square on Saturday seemed to provide proof that the party will pass the 10% electoral threshold in Turkey's June election.
30 years after military torture, Cizre mothers still seeking justice
13:45 30/05/2015The Saturday Mothers of the city of Cizre in the Şırnak province of Turkey gathered today for a 336th week to demand justice in the unsolved murders and disappearances of their loved ones.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to young women: forget likeability
12:42 30/05/2015Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, speaking in her awards speech for the Girls Write Now award last week, had a message for young women: stop trying to be likeable.
Only in Turkey: 13-year-old children said to 'consent' to sexual relations
10:36 30/05/2015With recent child sexual abuse cases on the agenda in Turkey, lawyer Reyhan Yalçındağ says the AKP government encourages the sexual abuse of children at every level of life—from the courts to ...
YPJ fighters on battle for Mt. Kezwan: Daesh ran scared
09:56 30/05/2015YPJ fighters who participated in the liberation of the key position of Mt. Abdulaziz (Kezwan in Kurdish) say that the fear that women fighters struck into the hearts of their Daesh opponents was key ...