4 October 2013: The Nevin Yıldırım case started

Nevin Yıldırım from Korukaya village of Isparta’s Yalvaç district killed her relative Nurettin Gider who  repeatedly raped her  at gunpoint on 29 August 2012...

Çatlak Zemin is at 17th Istanbul Biennial!

Project by Çatlak Zemin opens at the Pera Museum as part of the Istanbul Biennial.  Merve Elveren and Çağla Özbek invited Çatlak Zemin to...

How are our lives shaped through the protocols of the Presidency of Religious Affairs...

For childcare and problems such as violence that women experience “in the family”, women are left to the devices of the Presidency of Religious...

“I have to feel up to come next year”: 9th Boğaziçi University Pride Parade

The trustee management appointed to Boğaziçi University in 2021 quickly shifted its focus to LGBTI+s, first the club was closed, an investigation was launched...

How we get married, how we get divorced / Part 1

I started this research to create a space for women to share their divorce experiences, and how they reflect on these processes. During the...

“ILO 190 provides women workers an international assurance” / Interview with Feryal Saygılıgil and...

The Convention strengthens the women workers’ hand in the fight against sexual violence and harassment in the workplace. It provides an international assurance. It...

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...

Disaster is not natural but political

In the aftermath of the disaster, one of the issues we need to focus on the most is memorylessness, fatalism and being convinced 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...

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...

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