Women in Turkey: “We are here, we will not surrender to this darkness!”
Dozens of prominent women, including intellectuals, academics, artists and politicians released a joint statement on Saturday urging women to vote ...
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Turkish Constitutional Court grants women right to keep their maiden name
Turkey's Constitutional Court (AYM) ruled on Friday that married women can keep their maiden name without the need for legal ...
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Daily News: 21 April 2023
Severe storms on Thursday blew the roofs off of buildings damaged in the February earthquake in Turkey’s southern Kahramanmaraş province, ...
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Green Left Party leads in women’s representation for Turkey’s upcoming elections
The Green Left Party, through which the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) will run in the crucial national elections to be ...
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Turkish TV series featuring powerful feminist critique penalised for “violence against women”
The TV series “Kızılcık Şerbeti,” which features a powerful feminist critique of gender roles while providing an objective account of ...
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Most political parties in Turkey far from ensuring equal representation: Women’s Platform for Equality
Political parties in Turkey are far from ensuring equal gender representation and there are very few female parliamentary candidates in ...
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Turkey: Women’s election songs released in Kurdish and Turkish
Six weeks before the 13th presidential and 28th parliamentary general elections to be held in Turkey on 14 May, the ...
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Woman Again, Life Again: Green Left Party Women’s Assembly
The Green Left Party Women's Assembly announced its declaration at a meeting attended by hundreds of women in the Turkish ...
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Turkey’s ruling alliance ‘union to defend violence against women’: Opposition leader
Turkey’s main opposition leader and presidential challenger Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said the ruling People’s Alliance had come to uphold violence against ...
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Muslim women’s awakening underway, says Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi
While women's rights have seen many institutional attacks throughout the year, awareness and awakening among Muslim women have also been ...
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