Tag: femicide
Interview with the journal Jineolojî following the assassination of Nagihan Akarsel...
In her writings, speeches, and life, Nagihan showed how emotion, intuition, meaning can be intertwined with thought and action in a period when we...
May 24, 2016: Migrant femicide / Jesca Nankabirwa case concluded
Ugandan immigrant Jesca Nankabirwa, who had been living in Turkey for about a year, was working in a textile factory in Sultangazi. Jesca was...
“This decision by the Supreme Court of Appeals introduced male fragility...
The General Criminal Assembly of the Supreme Court of Appeals decision read that Orhan Munis committed the murder of Hatice Kaçmaz without premeditation, and...
Femicide means bleeding from old unhealed wounds
The fate of many women who were kidnapped, detained, abused and raped and sold in slave markets in front of the eyes of the...
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...
24 December 2013: While women are being killed; women who face...
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...