Star TV's Guldunya ends amid poor ratings. Women spectators and activists react, saying the show helped raise consciousness on the widespread problem. One in three women experience violence in Turkey.

"Government tries to undermine Ocalan's influence on Kurds" says peace activist Tahmaz. "Despite 10 years under arrest, Ocalan and the PKK are still determining factors in the equation to a peaceful solution."

Some 40,000 workers rally in Kadıköy, Istanbul, in the weekend to protest against paying the price for global capitalist crisis. There were clashes between members of the right-wing and left-wing metal workrs unions.

According to research published by the Prime Ministerial Directorate on the Status of Women, 4 out of 10 women suffer physical or sexual violence from their husbands or partners.

Police officer Ali Mutlu stands accused of “deliberately causing death”; the prosecution is demanding 8-12 years for the death of Feyzullah Ete.

When a male AKP MP opposed the “Gender Equality” name of the planned committee in parliament, it was changed to “Equality of Opportunities”. Women have reacted in protest.

Following the acquittal of singer Bülent Ersoy for her criticism of cross-border operations into Northern Iraq last year, the prosecutor in the case is insisting on an appeal, arguing that Ersoy's medical inability to have children is an insult to Turkish mothers.

The Constitutional Committee has accepted the formation of a parliamentary gender equality committee.

The "Ergenekon" investigation probing into Turkey's "stay behind" operations, revokes public memory. Relatives of the "disappeared" people under police custody revive their successful campaign of the 90's to raise the issue.

The Association of Women Workers says women should refuse to vote for parties with a few token woman candidates.

An MP of the CHP party has asked Prime Minister Erdoğan to state whether anything is being done about the increase in violence towards women. She has further demanded information about the training of public sector workers.

19-year-old Kırbaş has been paralysed by a police bullet. While a warrant for his arrest is still valid, the officer involved remains free. The court case continues.

Around 10,000 people gathered in front of the Agos newspaper office in order to remember Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, murdered there two years ago.

The women deputies of the Democratic Society Party (DTP) take a stand against the polygamy law passed by the Northern Iraq Kurdish Parliament, although the Kurdish deputies in the northern Iraq claim that the new law makes life easier for the women.

Italian artist Pippa Bacca’s murder trial is postponed to January 20 to wait for the needed documents. The women’s organizations are still denied to take part in the trial on the grounds that they were not similarly injured by the crime committed against Bacca.

The number of those who live with HIV/AIDS has become 376 last year. 892 of the cases are women and 118 of them under eighteen. The Positive Life Association (PYD) advises immediate measures in Turkey where most of the population consists of young people.

Prime Minister's description of women’s employment quote as harmful to women gets strong reaction from the women’s organization KA-DER as an attempt to ignore the historical discrimination against women.

Virginity tests are back in the agenda. A dorm principle asked parents of a student to take their daughter from the dorm since she was not a virgin. An inspection is launched in another dorm regarding the sexual activities of the students.

After dispersing their panel by force, the police did not let the women march on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, either. The women protested the intervention in front of the police barricades.

The November 25 Women’s Platform organized an exhibition composed of objects symbolizing and the pictures showing the violence against women, but the exhibition was ended by a sudden and violent police intervention.