E.K. who assaulted Melisa Sağlam for wearing shorts, has been arrested as the public reaction has grown following being released twice.

METU LGBTI+ Solidarity has declared that two toilets in Social Sciences building will be used as gender neutral as a result of their struggle.

Women in Prison Network has launched a campaign for women prisoners’ right to have free pad be taken under legal assurance.

E.K., who assaulted a woman on the ground that she was wearing shorts in a minibus in İstanbul, has been released of the assault but sent to prison on “opposing to tax law”.

SPoD LGBTI invites everyone to make sharing during 25th Pride we with the #OnurumHakkım hashtag and to express what “Pride” and “Right” means to them.

25th İstanbul LGBTI+ Pride Week has taken start with the “#AramızdeNeVar” theme. On the first day of the week, the court has ordered acquittal of the activists who were detained in last year’s Pride Parade.

Information Technologies and Communications Authority has blocked the access to Şûjin newspaper’s website. The newspaper has announced on its twitter account that it would continue its operations.

Zehra Doğan who had been sentenced to 2 years, 9 months and 22 days in prison on charge of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization” through his journalistic activities and postings on the social media has been arrested.

Men killed 29 women; three girls and five men; injured four men and one child in May. 17% of the women were killed for attempting to break up or divorce, or for rejecting the proposal of marriage.

The 3 Women Statue in Ordu has been attacked for the third time. Legs of the statues have been broken.

Women staged a demonstration on the streets of İstanbul, Ankara and Batman yesterday evening with the slogan “No bail for rape” and protested for the 14 year-old G. being sexually abused and forced to sex work in Batman province.

Sexual abuse, sexual violence and sexist discourse at the tribunes have been discussed at the Sexual Violence and Gender Apartheid in Football symposium.

VakıfBank Women’s Volleyball team has won victory in the FIVB Women’s Club World Championship for the second time. Vakıfbank is beside Eczacıbaşı VitrA Women’s Volleyball Team, which is the second team that became world champion for the second time.

According to bianet male violence monitoring report, 16% of the murders occurred in public places in the glare of publicity including shopping mall, hotel lobby, in the middle of the street.

The winners of the 20th Flying Broom International Women’s Films Festival have been announced.

The Pride March has been banned by the İstanbul Technical University presidency. Cins Arı has said “Neither State of Emergency, nor the university presidency can prevent one from being proud of being LGBTI+. We have existed in this or that way and will continue to exist”.

25th İstanbul LGBTI+ Pride Week will take place between June 19-25. You can both help with the costs of the week and send your suggestions for the event.

Emirhan Deniz Çelebi is an English teacher and a highly equipped trans man. “I instilled fighting to my students. If I could touch the heart of even a single person, how lucky of me..”, Emirhan says.

Ece Devrim tried many jobs from dishwashing to DJing. She continued İŞ-KUR courses, became a health care worker; when she couldn’t find a job, she had to do sex work despite all her efforts against this. Now, she sells lighters in her wheelchair.

The life for trans people has become more difficult especially after the 1980 coup; those who were stuck in the triangle of the police, the state and the media took their first steps to get organized.