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11:15

The AKP tends to ban everything to perpetuate its illusion claiming “Everything is fine in Turkey” to impose reactionary policies. The media industry is one of the industries affected by these bans; many news websites have been blocked to access, many news articles have been banned to be published, many news footages have been removed, many journalists have been detained and arrested. “Every mechanism in Turkey is used for censorship and repression,” Barış Altıntaş, Co-Director of the Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA), said.

13:50

The protest of the sick prisoners’ relatives, who gather every week in front of the building of the Forensic Medicine Institute in Istanbul to make a statement, has been reportedly banned by the Bahçelievler District Governorate. After the announcement of the ban, police battered and detained the protesters.

13:40

“Doesn't anyone see us?” asks Emine Şenyaşar, who has demanded justice for her killed relatives in front of the Urfa Courthouse for 332 days.

13:20

Women of Shengal came together to protest the Turkish airstrikes on their city. During the protest, they shouted that they will resist for their freedom to the end.

11:45

The We Will Stop Femicide Platform (KCDP) has released its January report. 26 women were killed, 28 more died under suspicious circumstances in January, according to the report.

10:40

In Turkey, the unit price of sanitary pads has increased by more than 50% in a year. The issue of the high price of sanitary pads was brought to the agenda of the parliament but men didn’t raise their hands to support women. Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Istanbul MP Züleyha Gülüm told us that women will launch campaigns to make the government accept that sanitary pads are the basic need for women.

14:20

The Şenyaşar family has demanded justice for 331 days despite the injustice they face.

14:54

The mothers, who have held a tent protest at the Semalka border crossing demanding their children’s dead bodies to be given to them, stated that they will hold their protest in different places. “The resistance of mothers will go down in history,” Newroz Mislim, a member of the Kongra Star Coordination in the Euphrates region, said.

14:00

27 human rights and journalism groups have released a joint statement demanding the release of journalist Sedef Kabaş.

12:00

The Şenyaşar family has demanded justice in front of the Urfa Courthouse for their killed relatives for 330 days. The family demands their voice to be heard despite all the pressure and investigations against them.

15:38

General Directorate of Combating Violence against Women and Family has announced that 13,584 women were subjected to violence in 2021 in Federal Kurdistan Region.

14:35

Addressing Bekir Bozdağ, who has been appointed as the new Turkish Ministry of Justice, the Şenyaşar family said, “It is not time for congratulations or thanks. End the accelerating injustices! A mother has been waiting for justice in front of Şanlıurfa Courthouse for a year. Hear her scream now!”

13:38

The Iranian Photojournalists Association condemns the ban on female photographers to cover matches in stadiums.

13:18

Bouchra Baibanou is the first Moroccan to climb Everest, the highest summit in the world. She is also the first person to climb Everest in North Africa, and the third in Arab countries. Ibtissame Azzaoui climbed the summit of Mount Toubkal with her four-month-old baby to record a new challenge as the first Moroccan woman to climb to the summit of Mount Toubkal with her baby.

11:05

Kafiya Ehmed, who was forcibly displaced from her village due to Turkish attacks, has lived in a cemetery with her seven children.

15:52

“We have demanded justice for 324 days. When will justice be delivered? Those who remain silent against this oppression will lose,” the Şenyaşar family said on the 324th day of their sit-in protest in front of the Urfa Courthouse.

15:00

Women of Shehba and Afrin called on the international community to take steps against the attacks on Northern and Eastern Syria.

10:16

1,032 intellectuals issued a joint statement for Aysel Tuğluk, Sezen Aksu, Sedef Kabaş and Osman Kavala. “We demand the administrators to put an end to this attitude, which is neither compatible with law, ethics, the Constitution, nor conscience,” they said in the statement.

14:20

The family of Gülistan Doku has held a sit-in protest in front of the Tunceli Courthouse for 25 days to learn the fate of Gülistan.

14:18

The sit-in protest started in front of the Urfa Courthouse by the Şenyaşar family has entered its 323rd day. “If the public prosecutors had empathy and listened to the voice of their conscience, we wouldn't even have to demand justice,” the Şenyaşar family said on Twitter today.