Aygül Doku, the sister of Gülistan Doku – who has been missing for 323 days – has been fined 50,000 Turkish lira after being accused of preventing the main suspect from moving home.Read More
Events were organised in North and East Syria (Rojava) to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which takes place on 25 November.Read More
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The Lack of Women’s Participation in Middle Eastern Politics
by Savan Abdalrahman – Iraqi Kurdistan Political participation is a process in which individuals play a role in changing and fuelling the social system by giving life to it. Today, worldwide, we see a wide range of women participating in politics, but this does not change the fact that women’s participation faces oppression and gender […]Read More
Twelve people were detained in Cizre district of Şırnak (Şirnex) in Turkey, during operations conducted against People’s Democratic Party (HDP) members. Former Cizre Municipality Co-Chair Berivan Kutlu and HDP District Co-Chair Güler Tunç were among those detained.Read More
The Mother of Peace, Meles Tekin, has died at the age of 75.Read More
Among 175,497 academics, 96,110 are men and 79,387 are women, according to data obtained from the Council of Higher Education (YÖK).Read More
Sahar Ali Translated from Yeni Yaşam Newspaper August 2014 represents a loss of life for all Yazidi women. Like many of my relatives and friends, I was captured after the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) attacked Sinjar. I remember the night we were taken from Sinjar to Mosul.Read More
The health condition of the seriously ill prisoner Fatma Tokmak in Bakırköy Women’s Closed Prison in Turkey is getting steadily worse.Read More
Semra Turan – Berna Kişin Translated from Mesopotamia Agency Women have been resisting patriarchal and sexist policies to enable “change and freedom”. But these same problems have surfaced in different regions around the world throughout the year.Read More
Four hundred and fifty-three women were killed in Turkey in the first 10 months of the year, according to a report by the the Centre for Sociopolitical Field Studies.Read More
