Over 150 cases of legal harassment target women journalists in Turkey: CFWIJ research
The diverse methods through which the Turkish government continues to weaponise the judicial system to harass and target women journalists ...
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Kurdish journalist’s home raided after exposing state-linked prostitution, drug rings in Turkey
A Kurdish journalist’s home was raided in Turkey after she exposed drug and prostitution networks in Hakkari (Colemêrg), leading press ...
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Pakhshan Azizi’s second prison letter frames Jin Jiyan Azadî as revolutionary discourse
In her second letter from Evin Prison, Kurdish political prisoner Pakhshan Azizi delves into the philosophical foundations of the slogan ...
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Iran: Warisheh Moradi writes defiantly from prison, as her case is postponed again
Warisheh Moradi’s second court hearing in Iran has been postponed again. Moradi, also known as Joanna Sine, is a member ...
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Kurdish, Yazidi women express solidarity with Indian women protesting against sexual violence
The Kurdish and Yazidi women’s organisations Free Women’s Movement (TJA) and Free Yazidi Women’s Movement (TAJÊ), have expressed solidarity with ...
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Turkey: Women’s rights activists demand justice four years after death of İpek Er
Four years after the tragic death of 18-year-old İpek Er, who was sexually assaulted by Turkish gendarmerie staff sergeant Musa ...
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Turkey faces greatest poverty in history, DEM Party’s Koçyiğit says
Turkey faces unprecedented poverty and hunger due to government mismanagement, Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit, Group Deputy Chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ ...
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Swiss women demonstrators chant “Jin, Jiyan, Azadî” in call for gender equality
Over 100,000 women across Switzerland marched in the streets on Friday chanting the slogan "Jin, Jiyan, Azadî" (Woman, Life, ...
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