Women's communes forming in Qamişlo
14:24 15/04/2015As work continues in Rojava to build a democratic and autonomous way of life in the cantons, the women's movement organization Yekîtiya Star held a meeting with Qamişlo women today about forming ...
Out of the sheets, into the streets: art action for woman who killed her rapist
14:08 15/04/2015n an action that combines a symbol of domestic intimacy with the face of a woman who has become a symbol of resistance against rape, feminist artists have filled the streets of Istanbul with sheets ...
Kobanê teachers fight the odds to open schools
11:42 15/04/2015The city of Kobanê's resistance against Daesh's attempt to devastate the Kurdish city has continued with the construction of three schools, with another school under construction now. Teachers ...
Boko Haram forced kidnapped women and girls to attack own villages
11:09 15/04/2015With one year gone by since Boko Haram's kidnapping of 267 schoolgirls from Chibok, Nigeria, reports are emerging detailing the gang's system for raping girls and forcing them into war, including ...
Saudi Arabia executes Indonesian domestic worker
10:39 15/04/2015Yesterday, Saudi Arabia suddenly executed an Indonesian domestic worker who had been on death row since 1999. Siti Zainab Binti Duhri Rupa's "confession" had been obtained under police custody and ...
Crowd receives bodies of returning YPG/J fighters in Diyarbakır
09:14 15/04/2015Hundreds in Diyarbakır took to the streets yesterday to greet the convoy of four YPG/YPJ fighters who lost their lives fighting Daesh in Shengal.
Engineering professor Beyza Üstün runs with HDP for environment, peace
09:09 15/04/2015Beyza Üstün, professor of environmental engineering at Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul, is running for Turkey's Parliament with the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in Istanbul on a ...
Journalist Frederike says trial won't affect her journalism
11:04 14/04/2015Dutch journalist Frederike Geerdink, recently acquitted from charges that her work constituted PKK "propaganda," says that the trial against her may have been an inconvenience, but that she will not ...
Women to be jailed with their infants for Peace Day dance
10:54 14/04/2015Two women in the Turkish city of Bursa will be jailed, along with their nursing infants, on the grounds that they danced on World Peace Day.
FrederikeGeerdink acquitted
09:35 14/04/2015Diyarbakır-based Dutch journalist FrederikeGeerdink has been acquitted of spreading propaganda for an "illegal organization" through her reporting and social media posts, in the second hearing of ...
Woman politicians on Ağrı operation: AKP is buying votes with human lives
13:42 13/04/2015Kurdish and Turkish women politicians warn that the Turkish military operation on Mt. Tendürek in the province of Ağrı was an attempt by the AKP government and the military to create massacre for ...
Wife of slain Soma miner interrupts trial, demands justice
13:25 13/04/2015With tension mounting in Manisa province over the case of defendants on trial for the workplace neglect that caused the death of 301 workers in the Soma mine fire, the court has delayed the case ...
Soma mining disaster case begins amid protest
12:48 13/04/2015Hearings have begun in the case of the workplace neglect in which 301 miners died in an explosion at the Soma mine in southwestern Turkey. The families of the slain workers protested outside the ...
Women of Van found committees against violence against women
11:22 13/04/2015As women in the Northern Kurdish city of Van continue their month-long campaign against violence against women, the Congress of Free Women (KJA) has decided to form a standing committee against ...
Kobanê women debate proposed 'museum to the resistance'
11:20 13/04/2015With every street in the city of Kobanê marked by the scars of war and the stories of resistance, women are debating the reconstruction process and the possibility of turning over areas of the city ...
In Adana, kebab for women's liberation
10:52 13/04/2015Betül Acar, woman kebab chef in the southern Turkish city of Adana, says there's no need for the world of meat to be a world of men.
27 years later, Anfal feels like yesterday
10:36 13/04/2015Tomorrow will mark the anniversary of the first day of the Ba'ath regime's genocidal Anfal Campaign. Relatives of those massacred say they want the Anfal mass graves opened to heal the wounds they ...
Spain's Women In Black protest femicide
09:49 13/04/2015They show up in a public place in a city, all in black. Then they lie down on the ground in silence. Groups of Women In Black have been gathering across the cities of Spain to call attention to ...
Feminists to take their struggle from streets to Parliament with HDP
14:03 12/04/2015With many of its 268 woman candidates prominent figures in the women's movement across Turkey, the HDP is emerging as the party endorsed by many women's groups in Turkey.
Women of Van: 'we don't expect justice from the state; we'll get it ourselves'
13:01 12/04/2015Women in the city of Van, who are at the midway point of their month-long campaign against violence against women, say that the campaign is an answer to the Turkish state's inaction on violence ...