Filiz Karakuş
April 18, 2014: “Stop Spreading Your Legs, Don’t Occupy My Space”
“Stop Spreading Your Legs, Don’t Occupy My Space” campaign was launched to counter men spreading their legs while sitting in their seats on public...
February 1, 2009: The 1st issue of Feminist Politika magazine was published
The first issue of Feminist Politika magazine, prepared by the Socialist Feminist Collective, met its readers on February 1, 2009. Published quarterly, the...
April 21, 2008: Protest for Pippa Bacca in Istanbul and Gebze!
Women from Istanbul and Gebze made a protest for Pippa on April 21, 2008. In the statements read in Istanbul and Gebze, it was...
April 15, 2010: Protest of LGBTI+ against Minister Kavaf: Apologize!
Selma Aliye Kavaf, Minister of State for Women and Family, was protested because of her words that homosexuality is an illness and that homosexuals...
November 24, 1990: Whistle protest against Minister Cemil Çiçek
In an interview published in Cumhuriyet newspaper on 13 November 1990, about relationships before marriage, Minister of State for Family Cemil Çiçek said, “This...
21 November 1998: The first Assembly of Women’s Shelters
Mor Çatı Women’s Shelter Foundation (Purple Roof), founded in May 1990, opened its first women’s shelter in 1995. In the same period, “independent discussion...
14 February 2009: Satı Korkmak was killed on Valentine’s Day
Satı Korkmak was smothered with a television cable by his husband Hasan Korkmak on 14th of February 2009.
Feminists were involved in Satı’s case when...
31 December 2008: Another Purple Needle demonstration in Taksim at New Year’s Eve
On 31 December 2008, feminist women handed out purple needles, symbols of struggle against sexual harassment and assault, in Taksim (İstiklal Street), and said,...
22 December 2001: Women did not take #19MayMassacre sitting down
On 20 October 2000, hundreds of prisoners commenced a hunger strike to protest the F-Type prisons. On the 45th day of the hunger strike,...
9 February 1995: “No to Virginity Testing” protest in front of the Directorate of...
Against the Ministry of National Education Directive on Secondary Education Discipline and Awards which authorizes school principals to demand the schoolgirls to undergo virginity...