Mutlu Kaya's condition remains critical
09:29 23/05/201519-year-old singer Mutlu Kaya, shot by an attacker in her home in the town of Ergani, Turkey, remains in critical condition, say her doctors in the city of Diyarbakır.
Turkish state surrenders woman to femicide
09:22 23/05/2015A few hours before Hacer Aladak's husband strangled her in the town of Ergani, in Diyarbakır province, she was on her way to a women's shelter run by the Turkish state. Women's groups are asking who ...
Women receive notification of summons for 'ideological dancing'
08:47 23/05/2015Three residents of Bursa, Turkey, who have been issued prison sentences for dancing "ideologically" on World Peace Day in 2013, received their notices of summons yesterday. One of them will go to ...
Iraqi woman MP demonstrates AKP-Daesh relationship
12:50 22/05/2015Iraqi parliamentarian Alia Naseef has obtained official documents providing proof of the relationship between Turkey's ruling AKP and Daesh.
Naked protest for black women's lives in San Francisco
10:37 22/05/2015Ten women in the U.S. city of San Francisco blocked traffic in the city's Financial District yesterday with a naked protest, drawing on African women's protest traditions to call attention to the ...
YPJ Şengal grows by the day
10:11 22/05/2015The Êzidî women's fighting group YPJ Shengal has formed its first autonomous unit, Binevş Agal.
Massive gathering in Mardin for YPJ/YPG fighters
08:45 22/05/2015In the Kurdish city of Mardin, Turkey, over 10,000 people gathered for the arrival of the funeral convoys of seven YPJ and YPG fighters who lost their lives fighting Daesh in Rojava.
Catalan women strike against patriarchal capitalism
13:08 21/05/2015The Catalan women's movement Vaga de Totes held a consumer strike on Tuesday to protest the unpaid labor and role of consumer that capitalism pushes on women.
Investigation into Paris Massacre of Kurdish women complete
12:43 21/05/2015French police's investigation into the 2013 murder of three Kurdish women politicians in Paris' Kurdish institute is complete. If there is no objection from the parties involved within one month, a ...
Armed threat against JINHA Batman reporter
12:40 21/05/2015Two armed menthreatened JINHA's Batman reporter Zeynep Akın with a weapon yesterday evening.
Police turn a blind eye to drug use in Diyarbakır
10:18 21/05/2015With drug use on the rise in Turkey, young drug users in the Kurdish city of Diyarbakır spoke to JINHA about their experience. They say police's encouragement of drug use on the streets of ...
On Circassian Genocide Day, Circassians struggle for visibility
09:42 21/05/2015On May 21st, the day when Circassians commemorate the 19th century genocide that displaced or killed 90% of their people, journalist and writer İnci Hekimoğlu says the millions of Circassians who ...
Mutlu Kaya to be woken up from anesthesia today
08:55 21/05/2015Doctors plan to wake up Mutlu Kaya, the 19-year-old singer who was shot in the head in her Diyarbakır province home, from anesthesia today.
Health workers on strike in Turkey
08:54 21/05/201570,000 health workers across Turkey began a three-day strike May 20 against the Ministry of Health's new obligation that primary care physicians work on weekends, instituted earlier this year.
Argentinian women march for Kurdish political prisoner
14:00 20/05/2015Women in Argentina held a march in solidarity with Kurdish political prisoner ZeynepCelaliyan and against the policies of the Iranian state.
Turkey's Women's Coalition: HDP is closest to women's equality
13:34 20/05/2015The group Women's Coalition, in an analysis of the status of women in the parties that will be competing in Turkey's June election, has said that the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) is the party that ...
Kurdish women's group gaining official status
13:26 20/05/2015The Kurdish women's group Congress of Free Women (KJA) has taken the first steps to formal legal status in Turkey, applying for the legal status of an association today.
Turkish forces attacks civilians trying to stop military operation
13:03 20/05/2015Turkish soldiers have attacked a group of civilians who headed to the İspiriz Mountains in the Kurdish province of Hakkari to stop a planned military operation there. 13 have been arrested, with ...
Atena Farghadani goes on trial in Iran for cartoon
12:32 20/05/2015AtenaFarghadani, the painter being tried for a cartoon she drew criticizing proposed restrictions on birth control in Iran, had the first hearing in her trial yesterday.
Nestora Salgado to be transferred out of high-security prison
11:34 20/05/2015Nestora Salgado, the indigenous woman who has been detained by the Mexican state for the last two years for founding a community self-defense group, will be transferred out of a maximum security ...