27 May 1995: Saturday People/Mothers are at the Galatasaray Square!
Enforced disappearance through which the state targets the political opponents and aims at intimidating those who are left behind became systematized in Turkey in...
In the shadow of obligations: Family planning and abortion
It is vital to consider family planning services within the framework of gender equality and develop a perspective that supports women.
The right to...
Why does the number of women who are interested in computer science gradually decrease?
According to a research published in 1999 there is an extremely logical explanation as to why women cannot be engineers: simply because they cannot. Their...
The struggle of women healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic*
Since care services are considered an extension of domestic work and are often performed by women; women healthcare workers’ emotional labor intensifies. The sources...
“They can no longer break this resistance” / Interview with Canan Arın
Following the withdrawal of the signature from the Istanbul Convention at midnight, many women’s organizations, bar associations and political parties filed a lawsuit at...
A short note on divorce and alimony
Alimony is a confession: It is the disclosure that women’s unpaid labor in marriage empowers men, while weakens and impoverishes women, and that men...
Feminist graphic novels? Present! – 1
If you are into comic books or graphic novels, you are most probably familiar with the sexism of the mainstream culture around this genre,...
Patriarchal labor exploitation in agriculture and its implications for feminist politics
Exclusion of women from land ownership enables men to constitute a gendered division of labor and, hence, to appropriate the surplus product produced by...
30 September 1936: Sevgi Soysal, the joy of our rebellion
Born in Istanbul on 30 September 1936, Sevgi Soysal was the third of six children of an architect-bureaucrat father and a German mother. Her...
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...
