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Message From Sezen Aksu for Pride Week: Love Wins

Message From Sezen Aksu for Pride Week: Love Wins

In her message she has sent to the Pride Parade Committee, Sezen Aksu has noted “No kind of violence can ever separate anyone from their nature or beliefs. Sooner or later love wins”.

#aşkkazanacak* Campaign for Pride Parade

#aşkkazanacak* Campaign for Pride Parade

SPoD LGBTI says “While we continue our struggle with love, we ask you to stand by us against the ones who try to intimidate us with hate speech and threats”.

Women Take It to Street to Shout ‘Our Life is Ours’

Women Take It to Street to Shout ‘Our Life is Ours’

Women will hold simultaneous protests in many cities against the report of the Assembly Divorce Commission.

Criminal Complaints by İHD, İstanbul LGBTI Against Those Threatening Pride Parade

Criminal Complaints by İHD, İstanbul LGBTI Against Those Threatening Pride Parade

Criminal complaint has been filed against the Muslim Anatolian Youth and Alperen Group on charges of inciting people to grudge and hostility, insulting, discrimination and threat.

Petition to Ensure Pride Parade be Held in Safety

Petition to Ensure Pride Parade be Held in Safety

Petition has been launched in order for the 14th LGBTI Pride Parade on June 26 to be held in safety. Ultra-nationalist Alperen Group has threatened the parade too following the threat of Muslim Anatolian Youth.

Website Calling for Attacking Pride Parade Closed

Website Calling for Attacking Pride Parade Closed

The Facebook page created by group calling itself “Muslim Anatolian Youth” in order to call for an attack on the Pride Parade has been closed. LGBTIs will file criminal complaint.

14 June 2016 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

7th Trans Pride Week Starts Memorializing Orlando Massacre

7th Trans Pride Week Starts Memorializing Orlando Massacre

7th Trans Pride week started today. Trans said, “The offensive which was launched on Yezidi, Kurdish, Nusayri, Turkmen and Christian societies in the past now targets LGBTIs in the other end of the world”.

13 June 2016 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

Non Prosecution for Half of Sexual Assault Crimes in 2015

Non Prosecution for Half of Sexual Assault Crimes in 2015

According to data from Criminal Record Office, 31% of 2 million and 683 cases brought to trial in accordance with the Turkish Penal Code in 2015, are offenses against physical integrity.

Çilem Doğan Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison

Çilem Doğan Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison

The court has by a majority vote passed the sentence on the case of Çilem Doğan put on trial for killing her husband inflicting violence on her. The chief judge has noted that Doğan had acted in self defence and put the annotation on the verdict that she should thus be acquitted.

8 June 2016 Beyza Kural

7th Trans Pride Week Starts with Theme of ‘Resistance and Peace’

7th Trans Pride Week Starts with Theme of ‘Resistance and Peace’

7th Trans Pride week starting with the theme of “Resistance and Peace” on June 13 will end with Trans Pride Parade to be held on June 19, Sunday.

Summer Comes, Sexism Season Takes Start

Summer Comes, Sexism Season Takes Start

In each year as of May, misogyny season takes start with the weather warming up. Thanks to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, we’ve welcomed this summer too with the debates on birth control and “half woman”.

7 June 2016 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

Your Country is Unwhole, Not Women

Your Country is Unwhole, Not Women

Is the voice of women being heard who were left half in Nusaybin, Sur and Cizre, lost their houses, children and have never had the chance to think on “being whole”?

6 June 2016 Banu Tuna

Erdoğan: Woman Refusing Motherhood is Incomplete

Erdoğan: Woman Refusing Motherhood is Incomplete

President Erdoğan in his speech at the KADEM has said, “A woman abstaining from motherhood for ‘working’ actually refuses her womanhood”.

Only 9 Hospitals in 12 Cities Perform Abortion Lawfully

Only 9 Hospitals in 12 Cities Perform Abortion Lawfully

Women organizations calling 184 public hospitals in 12 cities have asked whether they perform abortion. Some said “doctors don’t want”, some others said “abortion is unpermitted”.

Men Kill 15 Women in May

Men Kill 15 Women in May

Men have sexually abused 25 girls in May. People like teachers, vice principals, Family and Social Policies Directorate officer, school bus driver, market owner near the school have taken place among the perpetrators.

3 June 2016 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

Erdoğan on Birth Control Again

Erdoğan on Birth Control Again

President Erdoğan at the TÜRGEV meeting has said, “Birth control they recommend, no Muslim family can be within this understanding”, and called women and girls as “mother candidates”.

Documentarist: Documentary Against Deception, Lie

Documentarist: Documentary Against Deception, Lie

The Documentarist with sections such as Films Resisting Censorship, Queer Documentaries, Music and Dance Documentaries can be seen between the dates of May 28 – June 2.

Trans Beauty Contest Tomorrow

Trans Beauty Contest Tomorrow

Angel of Turkey Trans Beauty Contest to be held tomorrow aims to “show transsexuality being constantly excluded from the society is actually no different from the rest of the society”.

Governorship Disallows LGBTI Parade: Some Circles Might React Against

Governorship Disallows LGBTI Parade: Some Circles Might React Against

Ankara Governorship hasn’t found appropriate the Anti-Homophobia and Transphobia Parade to be held in Ankara on May 22 alleging that “some circles might react against it and lead to provocations”.

Ankara’s Rainbow Venues Mapped

Ankara’s Rainbow Venues Mapped

KaosGL has mapped the venues where you won’t be subjected to discriminative, homophobic and transphobic attitudes, and that stick rainbows on the venues’ doors.

19 May 2016 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

AKP MP to Meral Danış Beştaş: ‘You Ugly Thing!’

AKP MP to Meral Danış Beştaş: ‘You Ugly Thing!’

Filiz Kerestecioğlu from HDP has made a press statement in the parliament today and brought the expressions of Hakan Çavuşoğlu from AKP with regards to Meral Danış Beştaş from HDP to agenda.

Application to Pride Week Exhibition Begins

Application to Pride Week Exhibition Begins

The exhibition “Who would have thought” (nerdeen nereye) to be held within the scope of the 24th İstanbul LGBTI Pride Week, will take place at home of LGBTI activist Boysan Yakar who lost his life last summer.

Women Kill 2 Men, Injure 2 Others Inflicting Violence on Them in March

Women Kill 2 Men, Injure 2 Others Inflicting Violence on Them in March

According to the report of İstanbul Feminist Collective, two women have killed the men who have inflicted violence on/harassed them in March. The report also included cases of self-defence.

Men Kill 17 Women in April

Men Kill 17 Women in April

According to 51 harassment cases from 29 cities appearing in media in April, at least 155 women and girls have been subjected to harassment. 67% of the harassment reports are from education institutes.

6 May 2016 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

First Time in Turkey: Women and Sports Workshop

First Time in Turkey: Women and Sports Workshop

In the Women and Sports Workshop organized for the first time in Turkey, problems women and girls were facing in different sports branches and offers for a solution have been discussed.

Men Kill 28 Women in March

Men Kill 28 Women in March

Men have killed 28 women and the five men beside them. 14% of the murders have been committed on the street. The murderers of three women could not be identified. Three women have (or claimed to have) committed suicide.

58% of Sexual Harassment Cases Take Place at Education Institutions

58% of Sexual Harassment Cases Take Place at Education Institutions

58% of the harassment reports appearing in media have taken place in school, study center, quran course, and juvenile rehabilitation centers in March. 41% of the harassers were teachers of the victims.

6 April 2016 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

Woman Murdering Husband Inflicting Violence Acquitted

Woman Murdering Husband Inflicting Violence Acquitted

The court saying D.K. who killed her husband inflicting violence on her for 15 years practiced her right to self-defense, has ruled acquittal of her.

16 March 2016 Caner Aktan

CHP: Marrying off Children is Sexual Abuse not Tradition

CHP: Marrying off Children is Sexual Abuse not Tradition

Republican People’s Party Children Rights and Violations Research and Monitoring Commission members have reacted through a press statement in the parliament against the March 8 video of the Ministry of Family and Social Policies where it has been implicated that child marriage is a tradition.

AA News Overlooks Night March in İstanbul, Ankara, Covers Madagascar

AA News Overlooks Night March in İstanbul, Ankara, Covers Madagascar

State-run Anadolu News Agency has published photos of various March 8 celebrations from countries like Brazil, Ethiopia, Mexico and Madagascar but has not followed the feminist night marches in İstanbul and Ankara participated by thousands of women.

14th Feminist Night March: We Expand Our Fight

14th Feminist Night March: We Expand Our Fight

Thousands of women have marched on the 14th Feminist Night March. The fostered solidarity against increasing violence, oppression and glorifying maleness has been reflected during the march.

Council of Higher Education’s Commitments on Gender Equality

Council of Higher Education’s Commitments on Gender Equality

Seven commitments guaranteed to be undertaken by higher education institutions have been listed on Higher Education Institutions Approach on Gender Equality Document announced by Council of Higher Education President meeting women university chancellors.

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