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...
Why do women artists still exist?
I still think of art as a coffee house where naive, cool, nerd and isolated men hang out. Inside, there are amazing artists as...
What does crying tell us?
Just like all the other cliches about womanhood and manhood, sayings such as “women cry over everything”, “men don’t cry” are also banal. And...
(Is there anything) beyond the silent majority?
The kinds of jobs women hold are as important as the question of their employment now; the curation and placement of their public image...
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...
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...
“No attack can ever end women’s solidarity”: Conversation with women from the Foundation for...
Throwing the Istanbul Convention into question in such a way –a convention which offers a very broad and comprehensive framework regarding the combat against...
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,...
