During a raid at her house on 1 December, Turkish police officers forced Berivan Kutlu, the Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP’s) former Co-Mayor of Cizre municipality in Şırnak (Şirnex), to lie face down and stood on her back when she refused to kneel before them.Read More
Medyanews – News Desk Maria Edgarda Marcucci, the Italian activist and former Women’s Defense Units (YPJ) fighter, awaits sentencing from the Turin Court. Her trial relates to the “special surveillance” measures she has been subjected to since last March and a determination will be made as to whether these measures will apply over the next […]Read More
It has been revealed that Sevil Rojbin Çetin, a Free Women’s Movement (TJA) activist and Democratic Local Administrations member who has cancer, has not been treated for it in Mardin (Mêrdîn) Prison in Turkey, where she is currently being held.Read More
Sümeyra Çakır’s close friend Hüseyin Erdem spoke to Bianet about Çakır’s musical life and her contributions to Kurdish folk music.Read More
Seventeen people were detained after house raids were conducted in the early hours of this morning in the city of Şırnak (Şirnex) in Turkey. Another operation was also carried out this morning in Diyarbakır (Amed).Read More
The Free Women’s Movement (Tevgera Jinên Azad – TJA) appealed to the public for solidarity regarding the hunger strikes that were launched on 27 November by political prisoners in Turkey.Read More
After they announced their support for the hunger strikes that started on 27 November in prisons in Turkey, the cells of imprisoned female Kurdish politicians were raided in Kandıra No. 1 Type-F Prison. During the raid, police confiscated all the written materials and books of the politicians.Read More
Zeycan Yedigöl, a Saturday Mother who searched for her missing son Nurettin Yedigöl for 39 years, has died at the age of 98. She was laid to rest in Erzincan where she was born.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
The People’s Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey released a video on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. A key message was: “All over the world, women are resisting male violence and fascism; struggling to establish a democratic, just and equal society! We object to those who stole our lives […]Read More
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