‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadi’ protests spread across Turkey on 8 March as women defy repression
Despite arrests, state restrictions and a heavy police presence, women in Turkey once again took to the streets on 8...
Kurdish guerrillas report Turkish Army’s use of phosphorous bombs
The People's Defence Forces (HPG), the armed wing of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), has reported the use of phosphorous...
Turkish gov’t blocks education union’s gender equality lesson
Turkey's Education and Science Workers' Union (Eğitim-Sen) planned to introduce a gender equality lesson in schools on 10 March to...
Nation-state, culturalist solutions, and the challenge of democratic integration on culturalist approaches to the Kurdish issue
Sinan Cudi The relationship and contradictions between nationalism, cultural identity, and social cohesion has been one of the fundamental dilemmas...
Amnesty International warns of urgent threat to Kurdish activists Pakhshan Azizi, Warisheh Moradi
On the occasion of International Women's Day, Amnesty International issued a statement urging the international community to demand the immediate...
Turkey’s CHP calls on government to act decisively amid escalating violence in Syria
Turkey's main opposition leader, Özgür Özel, has called on the ruling Justice and Development Party-Nationalist Movement Party (AKP-MHP) government to...
Brazilian artist Rojda Dendara: ‘We are fighting for us, for women and for the world!’
Medya News spoke to Rojda Dendara, a Brazilian dancer and theatre performer, at the Peoples' Platform Europe, which took place...
Women at the forefront: Leyla Güven calls for radical change and democratic renewal
Leyla Güven, former co-chair of the Democratic Society Congress (DTK) and currently imprisoned in Ankara’s Sincan Women’s Prison, has released...
Abdullah Öcalan releases message for International Women’s Day, emphasises women’s freedom
A message for women by imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan was read out during a rally in Diyarbakır (Amed) on...
My Kurdish is sloppy, despite Hînker
It may sound fully absurd to you that a Turkish prosecutor decided to launch an investigation into three authors of...
