27 May 2012: First response from feminists to prime minister’s statements on abortion
Prime minister's following statements brought abortion and c-section to the foreground: "I see abortion as murder", "You keep on saying Uludere. Every abortion is...
16 July 1998: Muslim feminist Konca Kuriş was abducted by Hizbullah
On 16 July 1998, Muslim feminist Konca Kuriş was abducted by three gunmen from her house in Mersin, after her husband was overpowered. Worried...
“Sexual violence has been used as a strategic weapon also against the Yazidi women”...
The work group comprised of Şahika Yüksel, Suzan Saner, Ayşe Devrim Başterzi, Zerrin Oğlağu and İsrafil Bülbül has been granted the Association for Women...
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...
16 December 2014: The Yasemin Çakal case starts
On 10 July 2014, in an attempt to protect herself and her child, Yasemin killed her ex-husband Özkan Kaymaklı, who systematically subjected her to...
14 February 2010: “Men’s Love Kills Three Women Every Day”
14 February 2010: "Men's Love Kills Three Women Every Day"
In November 2009, Minister of Justice Ergin announced the statistics pertaining to violence against women...
What is academia to us?
The conservative-Islamist politics which coalesced in the structure of AKP (Justice and Development Party) today, does not wholesale refuse the ideas and concepts that...
A tale as old as time: misogyny and humor
Misogyny, deep-seated in history for thousands of years, is related to anger, mistrust, jealousy, and hatred against women’s bodily capacities and overlaps with the...
Her rapist*
The reason why women in the society have been feeling “dirty”, remaining in silence and putting the blame on themselves for years is actually...
Melisa Kesmez’s Nohut Oda
"After his mother, now I am next in line; he is demanding from me that which will keep him alive.
Although the face of a...
