Dylan Hasan – Lebanon Despite international warnings and an economy on the verge of collapse, the crisis in Lebanon remains unresolved. Angry protests against the corrupt political elite continue, and the authorities are unable to form a new government after Saad Hariri’s resignation under pressure in October last year.Read More
Medyanews Exclusive Following the sacking of the Central Bank of Turkey’s Governor and the resignation of the Finance Minister, a key name in the political history of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and a leading associate of President Erdoğan, Bülent Arınç, resigned from his position on the High Advisory Board.Read More
A Ministry of Cultures, Decolonization and De-patriarchalization has been established in Bolivia. The government has stated that the aim of the Ministry is to “decolonize and de-patriarchalize and reverse the inequality between nationalities, as well as between men and women”.Read More
Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan campaign launched in Italy
Within the scope of the“Stop Isolation, Fascism, Occupation; Time to Achieve Freedom” initiative that was announced by the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) and the Kurdistan Communities of Women (KJK), a new campaign was launched in Italy as part of the international campaign to demand freedom for Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan.Read More
Jinwar is a women’s-only village in Rojava, Syria. The construction works of the village were initiated on 10 March 2017 and it formally opened its doors to social life on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.Read More
Mehmet Ali Koçak protests against his son’s burial in ‘cemetery
Mehmet Ali Koçak, who lives in Siirt (Sêrt) in Turkey, reacted against the unlawful decision to bury his son Abdullah Koçak in the cemetery of the nameless before his DNA test results could be used to enable him to bury his son in the family’s cemetery.Read More
Pınar Gültekin’s mother Şefika drew attention to the murder of women by the Turkish state and called on all women to stand up against femicide. ”We all have to fight for women’s rights”, she said. Şefika Gültekin, interviewed by JinNews, repeated her demand for justice.Read More
The search for Gülistan Doku, a university student whose whereabouts have remained unknown for 324 days, has been stopped for the third time reported Jinnews Agency.Read More
For women in Turkey, the main item on the agenda over the last year has been the İstanbul Convention.Read More
Turkey launched a military operation in the Efrin region of North East Syria in January 2018 and occupied the region according to Hawar News. The region has been under Turkish state rule since then. Many civilians in the region have reportedly been subjected to severe mistreatment and acts of barbarism by the mercenaries of Turkey.Read More