KONDA Research and Consultancy Company has just published an “August 20 Barometer” survey report about people’s attitudes towards the Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (commonly referred to as the İstanbul Convention). Only 7% of people in Turkey wished to withdraw from the treaty. The treaty obliges the state to […]Read More
The Association of Lawyers for Freedom (ÖHD) has highlighted a report’s findings that suggest that prisoners in Van are at ‘high risk’ during the coronavirus pandemic.Read More
Sebahat Tuncel, from Kandıra F-type Prison Translated from Jinnews Those who do not believe in equality between women and men, who believe that women are secondary and inferior to men, who try to guarantee the slavery of women, who are already representatives of the male dominated patriarchal system, cannot prevent violence against women.Read More
Specialized sergeant, Musa Orhan, who raped 18 year old ‘İ.E.’ and caused her death, was kept in prison for just seven days.Read More
Jacob S. Blake is a 29-year-old African American man who was shot by the police on 23 August 2020 in the United States of America. The full details of the incident which took place in Kenosha city, Wisconsin state, are yet to be revealed. Josh Kaul, the Wisconsin attorney general, announced that the name of […]Read More
The British street artist Banksy has financed a boat to rescue refugees attempting to reach Europe from north Africa.Read More
Turkey’s Ministry of Health announced its latest COVID-19 outbreak figures for the country on 28 August.Read More
Rojhat Kevok – ROJAVA The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) has been placed in an impossible situation by different political actors and powers. Nowhere is this more evident than with regard to the hotly-contested question of the autonomous regions’ oil reserves.Read More
Barış Atay, an MP from the Workers’ Party of Turkey (TİP), was attacked early on 31 August in Kadıköy after Interior Minister, Süleyman Soylu, reportedly passed comments against him.Read More
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