According to data compiled by bianet, 26 women in Turkey were killed by men in July 2011. 21 women were raped, nine were harassed, 32 women were injured. The highest number of incidents involving violence against women occurred in Adana. Source:BIA According to data from local and national newspapers and news agencies compiled by bianet, [...]
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26 Women Killed by Men in July
Posted in Gender violence, Violence against children, Violence against women, Violence against women Turkey, women's rights Turkey, tagged Domestic Violence in Turkey, violence against women on November 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Rape Case Results in Reduced Sentences
Posted in Gender violence, Violence against children, Violence against women, Violence against women Turkey, women's rights Turkey, tagged N.Ç., rape cases and justice, Reyhan Yalcindag on November 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Court of Appeals upheld the decision for reduced punishment in the case of the mass rape of a 13-year-old girl based on the assumption that the girl gave her consent to the rape. Lawyer Yalçındağ warned that this is not a single case. The file was forwarded to the ECHR. Source:BIA In a controversial [...]
The European Women’s Lobby evaluates Turkish National Action Plan to combat violence against women
Posted in Gender violence, Violence against women Turkey, women's rights Turkey on October 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Although political commitments to eliminate violence are being made in political debates, the discourse often stays as rhetoric: the budget allocated to public institutions to combat violence against women is far from adequate. The EWL has just released a mapping report of national action plans (NAP) on violence against women, including the Turkish plan. The [...]
Roj Women joined pan-European efforts to improve EU’s external and internal policies on VAW
Posted in Kurdish feminism, Violence against women, Violence against women Turkey, women's rights Turkey on October 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
‘We all have the right to live free from violence, and women face so many forms of violence. We just have to end it, and we know the EU has the means to do so.’ With these words Sirpa Pietikäinen, Member of the house (EPP/FI), opened the Roundtable in the European Parliament organised yesterday by [...]
The politics of development in Turkey’s Kurdish regions
Posted in Kurdish women's economic rights, women's rights Turkey, tagged economic development in Kurdish regions, regional disparities in Kurdish regions on October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Source: Kurdish Info The Kurds do not enjoy great fame and if they are spoken of, it is often done in non-flattering terms like ‘terrorists’ or ‘ separatists’. But there is more to it. The Kurdish region is chronically underdeveloped. The attempts of the Turkish government to invest in the region, without any real participation [...]
Roj Women advocates for Kurdish women’s health rights at European conference
Posted in Kurdish feminism, Kurdish women, Kurdish women's rights, women's rights Turkey, tagged Kurdish women's health rights on October 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Roj Women joined the 11th International Women’s Health Meeting, held in Brussels, under the overarching theme of “Women, Health and Human Rights. Let’s Build the Future”. The event brought together numerous advocates of women’s health, feminist activists and academics, as well as funding organisations and other networks working on women’s health from different parts of [...]
German Sociologist Found in Mass Grave in Van
Posted in Crimes against humanity, Gender violence, Political Activism, Violence against women, Violence against women Turkey, women's rights Turkey, tagged Andrea Wolf, German Sociologist on September 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
After the investigation of a mass grave in Çatak/Van, it was reported that the remains of German Sociologist Wolf were found among the approximately 40 bodies in the cave. Source: Kurdishinfo A mass grave found in a cave in the district of Çatak (south-eastern Kurdish-majority city of Van) is supposed to contain the remains of [...]
Police used tear gas against women
Posted in Gender violence, Kurdish women, Political Activism, Violence against women, women's rights Turkey, tagged cizre, Diyarbakir, Istanbul, The Women Initiative for Peace on September 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In Diyarbakır and Cizre police brutally assaulted women marching using tear gas and wounded several women. Source: ANF The Women Initiative for Peace has organized a meeting at 6pm in Taksim Square in İstanbul to protest against the government position and the current deadlock in the Kurdish problem. Spokesperson of Initiative, Nebile Irmak Çetin, emphasized that many women, including writers, [...]
Van’da erkekler ‘kadına şiddete son’ dedi
Posted in Gender violence, Honour crime victims, Violence against children, Violence against women, Violence against women Turkey, women's rights Turkey, tagged Turkiye, Van on August 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Source: Demokrat Haber VAN – Çeşitli sivil toplum örgütlerinin erkek üyelerinden oluşan grup Van Kent Meclisi olarak, Mavi Plaza önünden Cumhuriyet Caddesi’ne kadar yürüdü. Grup, üzerinde Ayşe Paşalı’nın katil zanlısının fotoğrafının yer aldığı temsili tabutu taşıdı.
