6-7 September of Women, The Istanbul Pogrom
“I was 9 when the pogrom happened. We were living on the Emlak Street as it was called back then. I remember men shouting...
17 May 1987: March for Solidarity against Battering
In Istanbul, “March against Battering” was held as the first permitted and mass women’s protest after the 12 September 1980 military coup d’état. The...
10 May 1987: First feminist street protest in Ankara: “So, you love your mother...
After women in Istanbul started the Campaign against Battering, feminists in Ankara decided to organize a street protest against battering. They planned to sell...
1 August 2014: Istanbul Convention entered into force
Istanbul Convention (the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence) is the first most comprehensive and binding international...
Çatlak Zemin is now available in English!
Çatlak Zemin is a website which has been maintained voluntarily by a group of feminists since 2016. This group is composed of women from Turkey...
On Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto*
The original novelty and the exciting aspect of feminist strikes lies in their success to synthesize the struggle against patriarchy with the struggle against...
Feminism brings about a certain dose of unhappiness: A discussion over the “Bad Feminist’s...
As feminists who would like to take issue with the text "The Bad Feminist’s Manifesto", which was published on the website 5Harfliler a...
Background of TERF dispute: How did it all come down to the locker rooms?
There are some people in this topsy-turvy world who reduce patriarchy to biology and link it to the locker rooms, and therefrom formulate a...
Background to the Istanbul Convention dispute in Poland / An interview with Marta Lempart...
This interview with Marta Lempart, one the organizers of the Polish Women's Strike (Strajk Kobiet), took place at the WAVE (Women Against Violence Europe)...
Know thy age, know thy place! Really?
Who needs all these useless injunctions about what can and cannot be done and which pose obstacles before collective living practices and create new...
