17 January 1998: Law on the Protection of the Family No. 4230 entered into...
The law on the Protection of the Family No. 4230 was adopted by the Turkish Grand National Assembly on 14 January 1998. It entered...
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...
24 December 2013: While women are being killed; women who face the risk of...
The male judiciary may make women’s revolt against male violence a subject of litigation. A case in point was the trial that Fatma Yürek...
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...
4 February 1983: The 4th Page of Somut Magazine
Somut (Concrete) magazine is a periodical publication of the Writers’ Cooperative (Yazko) which was active in the period of September 12 . It is...
13 January 1993: Feminists from Turkey campaign against mass rape in Bosnia
A group of feminist women came together in January 1993 to discuss tens of thousands of rape assults by Serbian soldiers in various regions...
Is Boğaziçi University Sexual Harassment Prevention Office (CİTÖK) de facto being shut down? /...
Boğaziçi University Sexual Harassment Prevention Office (CİTÖK) which has been active since 2012 has been frozen last week after the coordinator of the office...
Pink Life LGBTI+ Solidarity Association: “The decision to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention is...
This heedless mind is feeding upon a knowledge which assumes that attacking and isolating the LGBTI+ people is a very easy thing. What they...
Could prisons be a remedy for male violence?
Neither the Istanbul Convention nor the Law No. 6284 are limited to penal practices in cases of violence. On the contrary, they offer a...
7 February 2009: “2009 local elections: We give our feminist word to Beyoğlu!”
In January 2009, the Feminist Collective started to discuss the local elections to be held on March 29, 2009. At first, to nominate a...
