The Free Women’s Movement (TJA) launched a four-month long campaign in İstanbul, Turkey, using the slogan “Em xwe diparêzin” (“We defend ourselves”).Read More
Bahar Kartan says that the baby doll story is her own life story and prefers to use traditional Kurdish motifs that motivate her in her art: ”I try to reflect what I live for and what I feel”, Kartan says.Read More
The Free Women’s Movement (TJA) launched its “We defend ourselves” (“Em xwe diparêzin”) campaign against sexual assault, political pressures and restrictions on the Kurdish language.Read More
The Kurdish filmmaker Rojda Şekersöz has announced that her next film project is “Thirty-three bullets”, inspired and named after a famous poem by Ahmet Arif. Arif’s poem, Professor Martin van Bruinessen notes, “refers to the summary execution by soldiers, in 1943, of thirty-two Kurdish villagers for alleged brigandage. A military court posthumously declared the villagers […]Read More
Hacer Yiğit makes a living by baking large thin flatbreads, thanks to the stove she installed in the front of her house. Yiğit lives in Yafes street of Cizre district in the city of Şırnak (Şirnex) in Turkey. Though townspeople consume mostly village bread, she bakes large thin flatbreads with the stove she installed in […]Read More
On September 12th, 1980, the Turkish military overthrew the country’s democratically elected government, destroying political and cultural institutions across society.Read More
Gültan Kışanak was imprisoned when she was a student after the military coup in 1980, 40 years after than she is in prison again.Read More
The initiatives of Kongreya Star’s Women’s Economic Committee (WEC) have positively contributed to the economy of the region. Women farm, produce fresh food, and make essential furniture in the cooperatives at prices that are also affordable.Read More
Translated from Jin News Although the Minister of Treasury and Finance in Turkey, Berat Albayrak, claims that “the economy in Turkey will get better very soon and this will be felt throughout the country”, people still suffer from high prices in the markets and are unable to afford even basic food items.Read More
Gülistan Doku, a 21-year-old university student in the city of Tunceli (Dersim) in Turkey, has been missing for 239 days. The search for her was officially ended on 18 August.Read More
